Close and General Friendships among African American, Latino, and Asian American Adolescents from Low-Income Families

By N. Way, Lisa A. Chen. 2000

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Experiences of Discrimination among African American, Asian American, and Latino Adolescents in an Urban High School (2004, methodology): “In addition, previous analysis of the survey-based data from the current study (Way & Chen, 2000) suggested that the Asian American students were more likely to report depression, low self-esteem, and poor friendship quality than were the African American and Latino students.”
A Longitudinal Study of the Effects of Family, Friends, and School Experiences on the Psychological Adjustment of Ethnic Minority, Low-SES Adolescents (2003, background): “Way and Chen (2000) and Berndt and Savin-Williams (1993) have found that friendship support is positively associated with self-esteem and negatively associated with depressed feelings.”
Closeness and Competition in the Inter-Ethnic and Co-Ethnic Friendships of Early Adolescents in Toronto and Montreal (2007, background): “Moreover, Way and Chen (2000) studied friendship patterns among ethnic minority adolescents from low-income families in New York City and found differences in general friendship support, with Latino and African American females reporting significantly higher levels of support than Asian American…”
Do Race and Ethnicity Matter Among Friends? Activities among Interracial, Interethnic, and Intraethnic Adolescent Friends (2004, unknown): “…Inventory (NRI) scale to examine various facets of friendship quality; these include reliable alliance, enhancement of worth, affection, companionship, instrumental help, intimacy, nurturance of the other, conflict, and satisfaction (Phillipsen 1999; for another example, see Way and Chen 2000).”
The Significance of Relationships: Academic Engagement and Achievement among Newcomer Immigrant Youth (2009, background): “In addition, immigrant boys tend to have fewer meaningful relationships with their teachers and perceive their school environments to be less supportive than do their sisters (Suárez-Orozco & Qin-Hilliard, 2004; Way & Chen, 2000).”
The Other Side of the Model Minority Story (2008, background): “Recent research has shown that despite their high levels of educational achievement, Asian American students report poor psychological and social adjustment (e.g., Chun & Sue, 1998; Lorenzo, Frost, & Reinherz, 2000; Way & Chen, 2000 ), suggesting an achievement/adjustment paradox.”
Bridging the Ethnic Divide: Student and School Characteristics in African American, Asian-Descent, Latino, and White Adolescents' Cross-Ethnic Friend Nominations (2005, unknown): “Although adolescents in ethnically diverse school settings still tend to befriend peers from their own ethnic background (Hamm, 2000; Joyner & Kao, 2000; Quillian & Campbell, 2003; Way & Chen, 2000), some form close friendships with youth from other ethnic groups.”
Doing Well vs. Feeling Well: Understanding Family Dynamics and the Psychological Adjustment of Chinese Immigrant Adolescents (2008, background): “For example, Niobe Way and her colleagues’ research with adolescent boys from diverse ethnic backgrounds in New York found that compared with African American and Latino boys, Asian American boys reported the lowest level of psychological functioning measured by levels of depression and self-esteem ”
Are There Gendered Pathways to Intimacy in Early Adolescents’ and Emerging Adults’ Friendships? (2006, background): “In a study that investigated the friendships of ethnically diverse urban adolescents, Way and Chen (2000) found that African American adolescent boys reported more self-disclosure in their same-gender friendships than African American adolescent girls.”
Sense of Belonging Among High School Students Representing 4 Ethnic Groups (2005, methodology): “Neighborhood rather than school friendships may be more important within certain minority cultures as well (Clark and Ayers, 1991; Dubois and Hirsch, 1990; Way and Chen, 2000 ).”
Connecting the Dots: How Connectedness to Multiple Contexts Influences the Psychological and Academic Adjustment of Urban Youth (2009, methodology): “The measure has been used with ethnically diverse, urban adolescent populations and has yielded good internal reliability (Buhrmester, 1990 ; Way & Chen, 2000 ).”
Perceived discrimination and the adjustment of African American youths: a five-year longitudinal analysis with contextual moderation effects. (2006, background): “Various aspects of friendship quality have been found to be associated, both contemporaneously (Armsden & Greenberg, 1987; Cauce, 1986; Ryan, Stiller, & Lynch, 1994; Way & Chen, 2000) and longitudinally (Buhrmester & Yin, 1997), with high self-esteem and low levels of depressive symptoms.”
Beyond and Below Racial Homophily: ERG Models of a Friendship Network Documented on Facebook1 (2010, background): “Online pictures document an existing “real life” tie and are therefore qualitatively different from the “virtual” networks studied by others (see reviews in Wellman et al. [1996], DiMaggio et al.”