Peer‐related loneliness across early to late adolescence: Normative trends, intra‐individual trajectories, and links with depressive symptoms

Study aims were to: (a) describe normative levels and person‐oriented developmental trends in loneliness across adolescence, and (2) examine the association between loneliness and depressive symptoms during this same epoch. Participants included 478 youth (239 males and females; 80% Caucasian, 16% African American, and 4% other). Measures of loneliness and multiple indicators of depressive symptoms were gathered yearly across grades 6 through 12...