Table 2.
Descriptive Statistics (Means and Standard Deviations) for Demographic Measures, Friendship Security in Adolescence, and Emotion Regulation strategies in Adulthood.
| Adolescence (16 years old) | Wave 1 (20 years old) | Wave 2 (23 years old) | Wave 3 (26 years old) | Wave 4 (35 years old) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N = 94 | N = 66 | N = 27 | N = 60 | N = 35 | ||||||
| M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | |
| Participant Age (years) | 15.73 | 0.47 | 20.16 | 0.74 | 22.59 | 0.64 | 26.62 | 0.86 | 34.98 | 0.86 |
| Relationship Length (months) | - | - | 26.16 | 20.62 | 35.38 | 20.21 | 55.09 | 32.58 | 100.50 | 68.14 |
| Friendship Security | 4.58 | 1.36 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Balanced-Regulation strategy | - | - | 2.80 | 1.26 | 3.20 | 1.30 | 3.73 | 1.29 | 3.26 | 1.66 |
| Hypo-Regulation strategy | - | - | 2.61 | 1.41 | 1.87 | 0.87 | 2.03 | 1.18 | 2.67 | 1.72 |
| Hyper-Regulation strategy | - | - | 1.96 | 1.21 | 2.30 | 1.31 | 1.61 | 1.08 | 2.26 | 1.27 |
| Partners’ Balanced-Regulation strategy | - | - | 2.96 | 1.33 | 3.31 | 1.62 | 3.80 | 1.32 | 3.57 | 1.73 |
| Partners’ Hypo-Regulation strategy | - | - | 2.39 | 1.42 | 2.13 | 1.12 | 1.83 | 1.04 | 1.91 | 1.29 |
| Partners’ Hyper-Regulation strategy | - | - | 2.26 | 1.56 | 2.07 | 1.51 | 1.73 | 0.91 | 2.84 | 1.57 |
Note. Friendship security and emotion regulation strategies were assessed on a scale ranging from 1 to 7. Emotion regulation strategies were observed during interactions with romantic partners at each wave, but each wave had a different sample size based on whether participants were involved in romantic relationships or participants in that wave of data collection. Each individual’s emotion regulation scores were used across all assessment waves in the analyses to maximize power, increase reliability of assessment, and maximize the use of data available.