News Finding: Quality better than quantity for adolescent friendships (£)  by @username Study here 
Paper Finding: The connection between close friendship strength and relative increases in self-worth, in particular, extends to adolescence prior findings by , in which younger children undergoing negative events experienced less of a decrease in self-worth when their best friend was present.
News Context: Quality better than quantity for adolescent friendships (£)  by @username Study here 
Paper Context: Results suggested that close friendship strength is more closely correlated with positive mental health changes during and beyond adolescence, whereas peer preference was not predictive of proximal mental health and was predictive of higher levels of later social anxiety. The connection between close friendship strength and relative increases in self-worth, in particular, extends to adolescence prior findings by , in which younger children undergoing negative events experienced less of a decrease in self-worth when their best friend was present. The current findings suggest the possibility that a strong close friendship provides not only a protective function, as shown by the earlier study, but potentially a promotional one as well for how one sees oneself as an individual.