Negative Judgments Research Articles

Bilinguals in social and emotional contexts: How positive and negative moods shape stereotype judgements in bilingual women

Purpose: The study offers insights into the interplay between mood and the language of operation in the context of stereotype judgements in female bilinguals. Methodology: Participants were presented with gender stereotypically congruent and incongruent sentences in their L1 (Polish) and L2 (English). They performed a stereotype congruency judgement task while their behavioural responses were being recorded. Data and analysis: The speed and accuracy of participants’ responses were measured and analysed using linear and generalised mixed-effect modelling, respectively. Findings: Our results indicated that bilinguals’ positive and negative mood states may interact with the language of operation, irrespective of stereotype congruency. We observed a facilitatory effect on response times of a positive relative to negative mood in L2 as opposed to L1. Such findings point to strong internalisation of gender stereotype in L1, with the behavioural responses remaining unaffected by mood changes, as well as decreased internalisation of gender stereotypes and their weaker accessibility in L2 compared to L1. Originality: The study is the first to illuminate the complex interplay among mood, language of operation, and stereotype activation, enhancing our understanding of the cognitive processes underpinning social judgements in bilingual speakers. Significance: The reduced accessibility of gender stereotypes in L2 might carry important consequences for various domains such as social interactions, politics, and employment situations, where L2 may serve as a tool for encouraging gender equality and diminishing gender-based stereotypes and biases.

Reported impact of creativity in the Wakakosha ('You're Worth It') internal stigma intervention for young people living with HIV in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Internal stigma (negative judgements towards oneself) continues to be a barrier to HIV treatment, management and care, and has global public health consequences. People living with HIV (PLHIV) who report internal stigma are less likely to seek care, adhere to treatment and can experience increased depression and lower quality of life. The Wakakosha ('You're Worth It') programme sought to reduce internal stigma among young PLHIV using inquiry-based stress reduction (IBSR), a cognitive and awareness-based methodology. This sub-study focused on creativity, exploring how it promotes young PLHIV's well-being. We analysed individual interviews (n = 14), focus groups (n = 3), poems (n = 5), songs (n = 2) and self-compassion letters (n = 38) and 23 activity journals from November 2021 to March 2022, utilising inductive thematic analysis to identify themes across the data. Creativity saturated the Wakakosha intervention through modalities such as drawing, colouring, body mapping, music and letter writing. These engaged participants and gave them a space in which to shift their internal stigmatising beliefs, and helped them in multiple ways including: facilitating emotional regulation, self-acceptance, self-compassion, self-worth and body positivity. Creativity also enhanced participants' self-image and allowed them to see their own abilities. Music improved the therapeutic environment by helping participants focus, emote, retain messages and connect within the group setting. Letters to self/others allowed participants to let go of stigma towards themselves and the circumstances of their infection. Tools such as drawing and body mapping assisted participants with emotional recognition and expression. This sub-study provided insight into the potential of creativity, when integrated into an IBSR intervention, in counteracting internal stigma. Ongoing replication is needed to continue to evolve best practices for internal stigma interventions. Future work should use more structured and specific interviews with participants regarding their creative processes.

Recorded Justice or Procedural Justice? A Randomized Controlled Experiment of the Influence of Body Worn Cameras and Officer Behavior on Citizen Attitudes

We implement cluster randomization to test the impact of procedurally just and unjust police behavior during a hypothetical traffic stop (versus procedurally neutral behavior), in addition to the impact of BWC notification (versus BWC absence). The findings from post-vignette surveys administered to a random sample of 750 respondents indicate procedural justice has a pronounced effect on citizens’ perceptions of the officer’s behavior, their attitudes about the encounter, and their general views about police and the law within the context of the vignette. BWC neither improved nor worsened attitudes, nor did it buffer the impact of procedurally unjust policing or enhance the impact of procedurally just policing in the eyes of citizens. Tests of asymmetry indicate procedurally unjust police behavior results in more negative judgments of the officer’s behavior in the vignette than procedurally just behavior results in positive judgments. The results suggest that officer behavior matters much more than BWCs.

Indicting the Athenians in the Melian dialogue

Abstract It is widely agreed that Thucydides’ Melian dialogue presents the Athenian invasion of Melos, and the Athenian justification, in a negative light. Attention tends to focus on the immorality of ‘the rule of the stronger’ that the Athenians present in the dialogue. This essay argues that another feature of the dialogue triggering negative judgements of the Athenians is their criticism of the Melians’ resistance: it is voiced by the Athenians themselves and therefore provokes in readers a ‘speaker-relative’ normative judgement of the Athenians. Philosophers have explored how our normative judgements about statements often depend on the speaker. Because the Athenians have deliberately put the Melians into their perilous situation, and because part of Athenian self-mythology was heroic resistance against overwhelming numbers in the Persian Wars, Athenian criticism of the Melians is hypocritical and applies an asymmetrical ethics to the Athenians and the Melians. Reaction against these features of the dialogue exacerbates the moral abhorrence of the Athenians felt by many readers. Hence I disagree with Bosworth’s view of the dialogue as primarily critical of the Melians. Instead we see Thucydides here condemning not only the Athenian imperial project but also the rhetoric used to defend and sustain it.

Adult mental healthcare professionals' experiences of family centred conversations with patients who are parents: a qualitative study.

Many parents with a mental illness report a desire for both recognition of their parental role and support for themselves and their children. However, parents are often fearful of negative judgements from professionals about their ability to be a parent, which inhibits raising concerns about their children with clinical teams. Consequently, an essential first step to supporting families is for professionals to proactively identify which patients are parents, although evidence indicates this is not consistently part of services. Professionals could play a pivotal role in guiding parents about how to talk to their children about their mental illness; this in turn can facilitate family functioning and enable children to access evidence-based interventions. This approach is crucial for mitigating the well-documented intergenerational risk of poorer outcomes and mental illness in children of affected parents. This study aimed to explore adult mental healthcare professionals' beliefs and experiences of talking with patients about: i) their role as parents ii) communication with their children about mental illness. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with 19 adult mental healthcare professionals with 4-30 years' experience of working with adult patients under the care of NHS adult mental healthcare services in England. Audio recordings were transcribed verbatim and analysed using an inductive coding approach following the principles of thematic analysis. All participants recognised their responsibility to identify patients' children through routine safeguarding protocols, but supporting patients around telling their children the diagnosis was less common. Many participants expressed concerns that raising the topic of children with patients could conflict with other parts of their professional role or would not be welcomed. Obstacles to these conversations were identified, across individual, environmental and organisational factors. Potential facilitators included specific staff training and resources for clinical teams and families around how to tell children about mental illness. Adult mental healthcare professionals would benefit from enhanced training on the importance and methods of guiding parents to communicate with their children about mental illness. This should include routine identification of which patients are parents and recognition of the impact of an adult's mental illness on the wider family system.

Judgmental the Identity of New York Times between Al Jazeera on Indonesia General Election: Appraisal Framework

This study aims to identify the terminology Al Jazeera and the New York Times used in their news reports on the 2024 Indonesian General Election, which had many candidates. In particular, this article identifies the data gathered from the appraisal system's components of attitude judgment (Martin & White, 2005), described in interpersonal (Martin & Rose, 2007). The number of negative judgments is much higher than the number of positive judgments. Out of the 21 total data, 76.2% are identified as negative judgments with 16 data, while the remaining 23.8% are positive judgments with 5 data. Once the analysis is carried out thoroughly, it is found that 80.9% of the data is categorized under social esteem, and the other 19.1% falls under social sanction. There are indications that the disparity between the positive and negative judgments is because of the controversy that preceded and followed the 2024 Indonesian General Election, in which Gibran, the President’s son, nominated Prabowo as a candidate and won the general election. This study's language assessment (appraisal) tries to identify two forms of judgment in four online international newspaper segments.

Bringing patients out of the gloom: Examining the effects of patient power and affect labeling on emotional experience reflected in emotional judgement

ObjectiveNegative emotions are common among patients in medical settings. It is important to investigate impacts of patient power and affect labeling on emotional experience in patients. MethodsBehavioral judgments and event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded while participants with high or low patient power made emotional judgments (positive, negative) about neutral faces, as well as investigating how affect labeling (affect labeling, viewing) influenced emotional judgments about neutral faces in participants with low patient power. ResultsIndividuals with low patient power made more and faster negative emotion judgements. A larger late positive component (LPC) amplitude was found in negative emotion judgments for individuals with low patient power, a component related to allocation of attentional resources to motivationally salient stimuli. Affect labeling elicited less and slower negative emotion judgments in individuals with low patient power. ConclusionsThese results suggest that low patient power triggers negative emotion, which can be reduced by affect labeling. Practice implicationsThe current findings provide valuable insights into reducing negative emotions in patients, fostering promising targets for training for medical professionals and education for patients aiming to ensure more humanistic and higher-quality care delivery.

Appraisal Attitude Analysis of Korean Expatriates' Cross-Culture Experience in Indonesia: The Implication for BIPA Teaching

AbstractThis research investigates the appraisal attitude framework to identify the level of attitude (affect, judgment, and appreciation) in Korean expatriates in Indonesia in their reflective journals (R.J.). The research uses the grant theory proposed by (J.R Martin & White, 2005; Oteíza, 2017). The study employed a descriptive qualitative method. This article describes their cultural competence and its implication for Indonesian language teaching for foreign speakers (BIPA ). Eight Korean expatriates wrote their R.J.s. The data in this study were lexical resources and phrases for appraisal attitudinal framework. The data is obtained from the expatriates' journals analyzed by U.A.M. Copus, and their appraisal of Indonesian culture is used as the data for the BIPA program. It was also taken from interviews and small surveys about their cultural experience to enrich the data. The results indicate two findings. Firstly, the appraisal attitude analysis of Korean expatriates' cross-cultural experience in Indonesia in their reflective journal showed affect (24.2%%), judgment (52.6%), and appreciation (23.2%). Most Korean expatriates express more positive (47.7%) than negative judgments (30.5%). Second, the system amplification text analysis reveals that the writer primarily uses other people's perceptions (judgments) rather than their own (affect). Lastly, text analysis based on the source of attitude indicates that the writer is the primary source of attitude, meaning that they are primarily responsible for assessing the subject matter they write about, which is Indonesian culture concerning time concepts and religion. In conclusion, it might be said that the expatriates have a more favourable opinion of Indonesian culture. Secondly, the implication of BIPA teaching (Indonesian language teaching for foreign speakers) can be implemented into the curriculum for their training.

Defining sensitivity and specificity for quality control of organized cancer screening using Prefectural Cancer Registry data in Japan

Objective To decrease cancer mortality by implementing cancer screening programs, rigorous quality control measures that utilize standardized indicators are imperative. In Japan, although each municipality performing cancer screening programs implements quality control for their programs using the checklist authorized by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, compliance with all the items listed is not possible because calculating sensitivity and specificity using cancer registry data is difficult under these circumstances. This report elucidates the methodology for calculating indicators, including sensitivity and specificity, by delineating the parameters of false-negative cases within population-based cancer screening programs in Japan. Furthermore, the inherent challenges associated with ensuring the quality control of cancer screening procedures are expounded upon in this report.Method Data from the Prefectural Cancer Registry of Japan and cancer screening records compiled by municipalities were used to differentiate true-positive, true-negative, false-positive, and false-negative cases based on the combination of screening test outcomes and subsequent cancer incidence.Results A false-negative case was defined as an examinee who received a cancer diagnosis within one year after undergoing the screening test, notwithstanding the negative judgment of the cancer screening decision. The duration for judgment of true-positive, true-negative, and false-negative cases was also extended to one year. Cancer identification after cancer screening was ascertained using data from the Prefectural Cancer Registry, ensuring uniform categorization of the four cases. Subsequently, sensitivity and specificity values were calculated for municipalities conducting cancer screening programs.Conclusion Sensitivity and specificity are indispensable metrics for the inherent quality control of cancer screening because these parameters directly assess the efficacy of screening tests. The anticipated increase in the number of municipalities engaged in comprehensive quality control of cancer screening in Japan is poised to enhance the efficiency of cancer control policies. This augmentation will be accomplished through the meticulous utilization of the sensitivity and specificity values elucidated in the present report. The forthcoming challenges involve the proliferation of medical institutes reporting their adherence to the checklist stipulated by the National Cancer Center of Japan and the widespread dissemination of fundamental knowledge pertaining to cancer screening.

An experimental test on the hypothesis of strategic uncertainty

AbstractThis study tests the influential hypothesis of strategic uncertainty (HSU) on the topic of bubble formation. We argue that if HSU holds, it shall apply to a stricter situation in which subjects in the market are rational, but none of them know the rationality distribution of others. The research strategies of exclusion and analogy are adopted to create a market that satisfies the two prerequisites of HSU. Briefly, a cohort of 24 participants in the same group is separated equally into three small groups using a pre‐determined rule within a 20‐period treatment. Group #1 is our primary concern, and its members comprise participants whose units of assets are zero with an auxiliary criterion by subjects' performance at the end of Period 5. Across sessions, we determine whether the regrouping criteria and group tags are displayed to subjects to control how hard it is for a trader to judge the distribution of others in his/her group. We observe that mispricing generally vanishes in both the experimental and control groups. This result delivers a negative judgement of HSU at the aggregate level. Observations at the individual level and the robustness experiments deliver the same judgement.

Stress produces negative judgement bias in cuttlefish.

Judgement bias tasks (JBTs) are used to assess the emotional state and welfare of animals in zoos, farms and laboratories, based on the interpretation of an ambiguous or intermediate cue. Animals in positive affective states are more likely to interpret the ambiguous cue positively, whereas animals experiencing negative affect are more likely to interpret ambiguous cues pessimistically. Here, we developed a modified JBT assay for the stumpy-spined cuttlefish, Sepia bandensis, to determine whether cuttlefish exhibit negative affective states resulting from external stressors. Positive and neutral visual cues were presented twice daily until animals learned to associate food with the reinforced visual cue. After training, one treatment group was exposed to combined exposure and handling stress produced by 6 days of impoverished housing and simulated net capture. Our control group received no stress experience. In test trials performed after the stress experience, stressed animals showed higher latencies to approach ambiguous cues, spent significantly less time in rooms with ambiguous cues once they entered, and were less likely to enter first into the ambiguous cue-paired room compared with controls. These behaviours suggest that stress induces pessimistic judgement bias in cuttlefish, the first indication of this capacity in cephalopods.

Impact of yoga and naturopathy on stress, anxiety, heart rate variability, and quality of life of a patient with social anxiety disorder

Abstract: A 32-year-old male diagnosed with social anxiety disorder (SAD) visited our hospital with complaints of avoiding social events due to fear of negative judgment, difficulty in conveying thoughts, embarrassment, and overthinking. He also struggled to initiate conversations and experienced agoraphobia, which made him feel anxious in crowded places. He underwent a 23-day comprehensive yoga and naturopathy intervention. Compared to the baseline, the postintervention assessment showed a reduction in Perceived Stress Scale score and Hamilton Anxiety Rating scores and improvement in heart rate variability (HRV) and Short Form (SF)-36 healthy survey. It suggests that yoga and naturopathy might be beneficial in decreasing stress and anxiety and in enhancing HRV and quality of life of people with SAD. However, as this is a single case report, more studies are recommended to validate the findings of this study.

The experience of sexual harassment victims in accessing counseling services at higher education institutions in Samarinda

This study aims to understand the experiences of sexual harassment victims in accessing counseling services at higher education institutions in Samarinda. The research addresses a gap in the literature, as most previous studies have focused more on the legal, sociological, and psychological aspects of sexual harassment but have not deeply explored the experiences of victims in accessing counseling services at the university level. This qualitative phenomenological research employed the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) approach. The participants consisted of four sexual harassment victims from two universities, one public and one religious-based institution. The findings of this study identified three main barriers. First, a lack of information regarding the counseling services available on campus led to delays in seeking help by the victims. Second, feelings of shame prevented victims from accessing counseling services as they were reluctant to share their traumatic experiences. This sense of shame was often exacerbated by fear of being blamed or perceived as overreacting by others, causing victims to keep their experiences to themselves. Third, the fear of social and academic stigma, including concerns about negative judgment from peers and lecturers, particularly if the perpetrator was a faculty member, became a significant obstacle for victims seeking help. Some victims even expressed concerns about the impact on their academic achievements if the incident became public. The study emphasizes the importance of policies that ensure easy access and clear information about counseling services, as well as efforts to reduce stigma, to encourage victims to seek help.

Breast or bottle? Expectations and experience of infant feeding for women with a body mass index ≥ 25 kg/m2: a qualitative study

AimThis study explores the experiences and perspectives of women with a Body Mass Index (BMI) ≥ 25 kg/m2 on infant feeding.Subject and methodsWomen with a BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2 have lower rates of initiating, maintaining and exclusive breastfeeding than women with a BMI < 25 kg/m2. There is limited qualitative research on this topic, particularly for women living with overweight (BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2-29.9 kg/m2). Eighteen women with a BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2 living in the North East of England and an infant under eighteen months of age participated in a semi-structured interview concerning infant feeding practices during May and June 2021. Participants were recruited through social media platforms. An inductive thematic analysis was undertaken to analyse the interview data.ResultsTwo overarching themes were identified: lower confidence and a perceived negative judgement from others for living with higher weight. These themes reduced women’s confidence in their ability to breastfeed and led to negative experiences or avoidance of public feeding. Difficulties with latching and positioning in relation to body shape also reduced confidence in breastfeeding further. Due to these barriers, women felt that they required additional, tailored support to achieve breastfeeding.ConclusionImproving breastfeeding support for women with a BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2 requires a whole systems approach involving education systems, healthcare professionals and the community. The impact of terminology, such as labelling a women’s pregnancy ‘high risk’, on women’s breastfeeding confidence needs to be considered further.

From ‘low-class’ and ‘talentless’ to ‘narcissist and pathological liar’: a functional-pragmatic approach to Meghan Markle’s negative evaluation on X

Abstract This paper looks into how aggression against Meghan Markle is deployed in a sample of X replies that address her directly through the lens of Appraisal Theory coupled with impoliteness. A sample of tweets containing the seed word “Meghan Markle” was retrieved with Export Comments (December 2022–April 2023). Replies were run through the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count-22 to assess the tone and prevalence of emotions in the corpus. Results indicated high values for negative emotions, interpersonal conflict, and moralization words. Then, a random sample was manually codified to identify the use frequencies for the Attitude system’s affect, judgment, and appreciation categories when employed to convey hostility against the public figure. Tweets were overwhelmingly negative and explicitly conveyed through the negative judgment of Meghan Markle’s previous sexual and professional life. The veracity of her words and actions was also a source of aggression while tapping into the widely accepted stereotype that depicts women as liars or as incompetent and lacking determination, while some tweets also touched upon her mental instability. Findings reveal that aggressive tweets on X rely on appraisal resources and impolite-related language to promote and perpetuate culturally bound and traditional beliefs about women that ultimately reflect an underlying patriarchal system.

Types of Value

Our values possess a previously unrecognized distinctive kind of underlying unity. Discussion here begins with moral values, and it is argued that recent approaches like Scanlon’s and Parfit’s run together moral and rational values in an unintuitive way. A defense is then briefly given of a more intuitively plausible moral approach that focuses on empathy, and it is argued further that empathy itself can be theoretically grounded in updated versions of yin 陰 and yang 陽, with yin understood as receptivity and yang as directed purpose. The discussion then takes up notions like practical rationality, well-being, the (impersonally) Good, moral approval/disapproval, and nonethical value concepts like “good knife” and “beautiful face.” It is argued that in every one of these spheres of evaluation positive value judgments imply attraction and negative value judgments repulsion but that in all cases these implications can be canceled in a Gricean way. And it also turns out that we can use yin/yang to better understand not only the positive and negative implications of value judgments but also the ways those implications can be contextually canceled.

Intersectionality of Disabled People through a Disability Studies, Ability-Based Studies, and Intersectional Pedagogy Lens: A Survey and a Scoping Review

Disabled people face many social problems in their lives, as outlined by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. These problems often increase when disabled people also belong to another marginalized identity. The first aim of this study was to report on the extent and what intersectionalities are mentioned in academic abstracts in conjunction with disabled people. Various intersectional concepts are used to discuss intersectionality-related issues. The second aim was to ascertain the use of intersectionality-based concepts to discuss the intersectionality of disabled people. The field of intersectional pedagogy emerged to discuss the teaching of intersectionality linked to various marginalized identities. The third aim was to ascertain the coverage of how to teach about the intersectionality of disabled people in the intersectional pedagogy-focused academic literature we covered. Ability judgments are a general cultural reality. Many ability judgment-based concepts have been developed within the disability rights movement, disability studies, and ability-based studies that could be used to discuss the impact of ability judgments on the intersectionality of disabled people and enrich the area of intersectional pedagogy. The fourth aim was to ascertain the use of ability judgment-based concepts to analyze the intersectionality of disabled people. To obtain data for the four aims, we performed a manifest coding and qualitative content analysis of abstracts obtained from SCOPUS, the 70 databases of EBSCO-HOST and Web of Science, and an online survey in which we ascertained the views of undergraduate students on social groups experiencing negative ability-based judgments. As to the 34,830 abstracts that contained the term “intersectionality”; the 259,501 abstracts that contained the phrase “intersection of”; and the 11,653 abstracts that contained the 35 intersectionality-based concepts, the numbers for these abstracts that also contained the disability terms we used for our analysis were 753, 2058, and 274 abstracts, respectively, so 2.16%, 0.79%, and 2.35%, indicating a low academic engagement with the intersectionality of disabled people. We found many different intersectionalities mentioned in conjunction with disabled people, but most were mentioned only once or twice, with the main ones mentioned being race and gender. The literature covered made little use of most of the 52 intersectionality-based concepts we looked at (35 identified before the study and 17 more identified during the analysis). The literature covered also did not link to the area of intersectional pedagogy. Of the 25 ability judgment-based concepts, only the term ableism was used. As to the surveys, most students saw many of the social groups experiencing negative ability judgments, suggesting that the ability judgment-based concepts might be a useful tool to discuss intersectional consequences of ability judgments, such as intersectional conflict. Our data might be useful for intersectionality studies, intersectional pedagogy, disability studies, ability-based studies, and other academic fields that engage with intersectionality or with disability issues. Our study might also be useful for academics covering various topics to engage with the intersectionality of disabled people as part of their inquiries.

‘I do not know if I will have the energy to come to placement tomorrow’: Fast-Tracking Racially Minoritised Students to Failure in Social Work Education

Abstract We build upon previous work that explored the evidence base of ‘failure to fail’ on practice placements across professions. We found a lack of convincing evidence of ‘fail to fail’ within assessed practice learning placements and could not ascertain the extent of this issue. The literature was stronger about why it ‘might’ or ‘could’ be difficult to fail students on placement. We concluded that if there was a reluctance to fail students, that hesitancy was not shown when failing racially minoritised students. Using critical race theory, we noted instead, fast tacking to failure. Data were re-examined from two previous studies that focused on the experiences of Black African social work students in England. We identified two ways in which practice educators operationalised fast tracking to failure. Firstly, the speed at which negative judgments were made about students’ abilities, and related to this, asking personal and insensitive questions, and secondly, the speed of decision about placement failure. We argue that the debate needs to move away from fail to fail and instead, focus on who is being fast tracked to failure, and how racism and other discrimination is addressed forcefully in social work policy, practice and education.

Disability, Offense, and the Expressivist Objection to Medical Aid in Dying.

One criticism of medical aid in dying (MAID) is the expressivist objection: MAID is morally wrong because it expresses judgments about disabilities or persons with disabilities, that are offensive, disrespectful, or discriminatory. The expressivist objection can be made at the level of individual patients, medical providers, or the state. The expressivist objection originated with selective abortion, and responses to it in that context typically claim either that selective abortion does not express specific judgments about disabilities, or that any judgments expressed are not offensive. This response is inadequate: MAID often does express negative judgments about disabilities, which could reasonably be seen as offensive. But, does this offensiveness make MAID wrong? Drawing on Joel Feinberg's account of offense, I argue that it is unlikely that the offensiveness of the judgments expressed by individuals who seek MAID or through the state's legalization of MAID is enough to make it morally impermissible.

The Relationship between Perceived Friendship Quality and Self-Judgements in Adolescent Girls from London

Understanding ourselves within our peer environment is an important component of self-development during adolescence, the period of life between the onset of puberty and adulthood (between ages 10 and 24 years). We used a self-appraisal paradigm to investigate cross-sectionally the relationship between perceived friendship quality and self-judgements in adolescent girls. One hundred and sixty-three girls (9–15 years), recruited from London, United Kingdom, rated how well a set of positive and negative adjectives described themselves, or a chosen familiar other. Participants also completed a self-report friendship quality questionnaire. Higher perceived friendship quality predicted lower negative self-judgements and higher positive self-judgements. These relationships did not change across the age range tested, but there was an overall decrease in positivity effect (higher positive judgements compared to negative judgements) with age. These findings highlight the importance of investigating how different components of peer relationships are related to self-concept development in adolescence.