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In turn, these feelings prepare adolescents for reaffiliation, thereby reducing loneliness (H1a: short-term\n                    <jats:italic>balancing<\/jats:italic>\n                    feedback loop). If this fails, loneliness and depressive symptoms may become long-term traits that exacerbate each other over time (H1b: long-term\n                    <jats:italic>reinforcing<\/jats:italic>\n                    feedback loop). Therefore, the short-term balancing feedback loop between loneliness and depressive symptoms may buffer against their long-term increases (H2: across-timescale influence). We tested these hypotheses in Dutch adolescents (\n                    <jats:italic>M<\/jats:italic>\n                    <jats:sub>age_Wave1<\/jats:sub>\n                    = 12.9,\n                    <jats:italic>SD<\/jats:italic>\n                    <jats:sub>age_Wave1<\/jats:sub>\n                    = 0.7, 53% female) using six-wave, half-yearly panel data (\n                    <jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>\n                    = 774; 2017\u20132021) and 7-day, 1.5-hourly experience sampling data (\n                    <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                    <jats:sub>subsample<\/jats:sub>\n                    = 84; mid-2021). Residual dynamic structural equation modeling revealed reinforcing feedback loops at both short-term (1.5-hourly) and long-term (half-yearly), supporting H1b but not H1a. Bayesian latent change score modeling supported H2: Adolescents who felt more depressed an hour after heightened loneliness showed smaller half-yearly increases in trait loneliness. However, this buffering effect was not predicted by the hourly depressed-to-loneliness relation, nor did either hourly relations predict half-yearly changes in depressive symptoms. 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