Predicting Friendship Stability During Early Adolescence

By A. Bowker. 2004

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Peer Relationships in Childhood (2013, background): “Significantly, young adolescents’ best friendships are more stable than regular friendships (Bowker, 2004).”
Monthly Changes in the Composition of Friendship Networks in Early Adolescence (2007, background): “The very few studies conducted on the degree of friendship stability have often employed measurements taken twice within a six-month interval (typically in the fall and spring over the course of a school year) (Berndt & Hoyle, 1985; Bowker, 2004; Degirmencioglu et al., 1998, Woj slawowicz, Rubin, Bu”
Relationships with intimate partner, best friend, and parents in adolescence and early adulthood: A study of the saliency of the intimate partnership (2007, background): “Recent studies (Bowker, 2004; Değirmencioğlu, Urberg, Tolson, & Richard, 1998) showed that only half of close or reciprocal friendships keep stable across one year.”
Explaining Friendship Formation and Friendship Stability: The Role of Children's and Friends' Aggression and Victimization (2007, methodology): “For example, Schneider et al. (1997) found that positive friendship quality (e.g., support, intimacy) was predictive of friendship stability for children in third and fourth grades, but others found no such relation in middle childhood (Blachman & Hinshaw, 2002; Bowker, 2004).”
Behavioral Characteristics Associated with Stable and Fluid Best Friendship Patterns in Middle Childhood (2006, result): “However, both of these percentages are comparable to recent reports on the stability of friendships across the school year (e.g., Bowker, 2004; 50 %).”