Best friends forever?: High school best friendships and the transition to college
By D. Oswald, E. Clark. 2003
231 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/20961b5c8c22129ffd66e423dc3db036065530d1
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In Clinical Psychology
- Catrin Finkenauer
- Rutger C. M. E. Engels
- Robin I. M. Dunbar
- Susan C. Roberts
- Michael W. Pratt
- S. Pancer
- J. Saramaki
- W. Meeus
In Social Psychology
- Robin I. M. Dunbar
- Catrin Finkenauer
- Susan C. Roberts
- Rutger C. M. E. Engels
- Michael W. Pratt
- W. Meeus
- Susan J T Branje
- Amanda B. Nickerson
Citations in the corpus
- Persistence of social signatures in human communication (2012, background): “However, studies using electronic communication sources typically lack information on the nature of the social relationships (5, 12–15), whereas the challenge in using survey data alone has been that these give detailed information about the nature of the social relationships, but lack quantitative ”
- An Examination of the Reciprocal Relationship of Loneliness and Facebook Use among First-Year College Students (2012, background): “First-year college students transitioning from high school to college have been found to be at high risk of loneliness when faced with the stresses of living away from their families and lacking their previous social support system (Oswald & Clark, 2003).”
- The Role of Organized Activities in Facilitating Social Adaptation Across the Transition to College (2007, background): “Consistent with prior findings (i.e., Oswald & Clark, 2003), more than half of the participants in this study reported a different best friend following the transition to college.”
- The Importance of Friends (2007, background): “For example, approximately 41% of high school best friendships have been found to become more distant during the fall semester of students’ 1st year of university (Oswald & Clark, 2003).”
- You are my best friend: Commitment and stability in adolescents’ same‐sex friendships (2007, background): “In late adolescence, the transition from high school to college brings change for adolescents’ best friendships (Oswald & Clark, 2003).”