The Company They Keep: Friendships in Childhood and Adolescence

by Edited by William M. Bukowski , Andrew F. Newcomb , Willard W. Hartup

• ISBN13: 9780521627252
• ISBN10: 0521627257
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-03-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Friendship is one of life's most essential and rewarding forms of interaction. It is a feature of every culture and most persons interact with their friends on a daily basis. Thus far, most research on the subject of friendship has concentrated on peer acceptance, dyadic properties and the contribution that friendship makes to development and adjustment. There has been little exploration of friendship's role in a child's social and emotional growth. The Company They Keep pioneers this area. This book provides a forum in which a group of internationally recognized scholars, active in the study of friendship, presents the major conceptual issues, themes, and findings from their research. The authors describe the theoretical and empirical context, and the goals of their own research programmes. They discuss current research and the methodological strategies adopted for studying friendship relations. A variety of topics is explored, including cultural variations in children's and adolescents' friendships, the association between friendship and cognitive and personality development, the effect of friendship on adjustment, and the links between experience within the family and relationships with friends. The authors also express their views on future directions for such research. This book will appeal to developmental psychologists, researchers, and students. It will also provide a solid reference work for social psychologists, sociologists, and social workers concerned with interpersonal relationships.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii	(2)
Preface	ix
1 Friendship and its significance in childhood and adolescence: Introduction and comment	1	(18)
William M. Bukowski
Andrew F. Newcomb
Willard W. Hartup
Part I. The nature of friendship, its measurement, and development	19	(96)
2 Amicitia, drujba, shin-yu, philia, Freundschaft, friendship: On the cultural diversity of a human relationship	19	(22)
Lothar Krappmann
3 The measurement of friendship perceptions: Conceptual and methodological issues	41	(25)
Wyndol Furman
4 The earliest friendships	66	(21)
Carollee Howes
5 Determinants of friendship selection and quality: Developmental perspectives	87	(28)
Frances E. Aboud
Morton J. Mendelson
Part II. Interdependence of relationship systems	115	(98)
6 Parents' interpersonal relationships and children's friendships	115	(22)
Anna Beth Doyle
Dorothy Markiewicz
7 Individual differences in friendship quality: Links to child-mother attachment	137	(21)
Kathryn A. Kerns
8 Need fulfillment, interpersonal competence, and the developmental contexts of early adolescent friendship	158	(28)
Duane Buhrmester
9 Closeness and conflict in adolescent peer relationships: Interdependence with friends and romantic partners	186	(27)
Brett Laursen
Part III. Friendship and its associations with other aspects of development	213	(76)
10 Cooperation, close relationships, and cognitive development	213	(25)
Willard W. Hartup
11 Friendship and morality: (How) are they related?	238	(24)
William M. Bukowski
Lorrie K. Sippola
12 Friendships of maltreated children and adolescents: Contexts for expressing and modifying relationship history	262	(27)
Joseph M. Price
Part IV. Friendship and adaptation	289	(118)
13 The developmental significance of children's friendship relations	289	(33)
Andrew F. Newcomb
Catherine L. Bagwell
14 Linkages between friendship and adjustment during early school transitions	322	(24)
Gary W. Ladd
Becky J. Kochenderfer
15 Exploring the effects of friendship quality on social development	346	(20)
Thomas J. Berndt
16 Distinguishing friendship from acceptance: Implications for intervention and assessment	366	(41)
Steven R. Asher
Jeffrey G. Parker
Diane L. Walker
Author index	407	(10)
Subject index	417