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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Nov 18.
Published in final edited form as: Child Dev. 2021 Jul 15;92(6):e1326–e1341. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13630

Table 2.

Final Growth Curve Models for Friends’ Support-Seeking and Teens’ Empathic Support Provision from Ages 16–18.

Intercept Linear Change
Coefficient SE t p Coefficient SE t p
Individual Model: Teens’ Empathic Support (H1–2)
Unconditional growth curve model 2.27 .05 47.95 <.001 .04 .03 1.07 .284
Conditional growth curve model
 Family income .07 .03 2.19 .028 −.02 .02 −.74 .459
 Gender .21 .09 2.40 .016 −.06 .07 −.98 .326
 Attachment security (14y) .58 .11 5.35 <.001 .19 .08 −2.38 .018
Dyadic Model: Friends’ Support-Seeking & Teens’ Empathic Support Provision (H3)
Unconditional dyadic growth curve model
 Friends’ support-seeking 1.68 .06 29.19 <.001 .01 .03 0.14 .890
 Teens’ empathic support provision 2.27 .05 48.04 <.001 .04 .03 1.12 .262
Conditional dyadic growth curve model
 Family income → Friends’ support-seeking .08 .04 2.17 .030 .01 .02 .44 .657
 Family income → Teens’ empathic support .07 .03 2.19 .028 −.02 .02 −.77 .439
 Gender → Friends’ support-seeking .34 .11 3.13 .002 −.07 .07 −.96 .339
 Gender → Teens’ empathic support .23 .09 2.53 .011 −.07 .07 −1.03 .302
 Attachment security (14y) → Friends’ support-seeking .54 .14 3.98 <.001 .25 .09 −2.90 .004
 Attachment security (14y) → Teens’ empathic support .56 .11 5.17 <.001 .18 .08 −2.25 .025

Note. The unstandardized coefficients represent the regressions of the intercepts and slopes for teen empathic support provision (a composite of emotional support, instrumental support, engagement, and interpretation of the problem) and friend support-seeking (a composite of emotional and instrumental support-seeking) on the predictors (e.g., attachment security). Boldface indicates significant coefficients, p < .05.