Figure 1.

Trajectories of adolescent empathic support provision to close friends across ages 16–18. The four dimensions of empathic support provision (emotional support provision, instrumental support provision, engagement, interpretation of the friend’s problem) were averaged to create overall scores at each time point. Means are presented for the full sample (dashed line), and for high (+1 SD above the mean; black solid line) and low (−1 SD below the mean; grey solid line) attachment security at age 14. Only teens who were less secure at age 14 showed significant increases in empathic support provision (grey solid line).