Friendship Maintenance: An Analysis of Individual and Dyad Behaviors

By D. Oswald, E. Clark, Cheryl M. Kelly. 2004

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You are my best friend: Commitment and stability in adolescents’ same‐sex friendships (2007, background): “Because friendships of girls are more exclusive, we expect that satisfaction, investments, and alternatives are more important for friendship commitment and stability among girls than among boys (Oswald et al., 2004).”
Cross-Group Friendships and Intergroup Attitudes (2011, background): “More recent research on interpersonal relations by Oswald, Clark, and Kelly (2004) also suggests that behaviors encompassing positivity, supportiveness, openness, and interaction are central for friendship maintenance.”
Social capital on facebook: differentiating uses and users (2011, background): “By virtue of being directed at particular others, one-on-one messages are likely to be rich in content that strengthens relationships, such as self-disclosure, supportiveness and positivity [30].”
Friendship standards: The dimensions of ideal expectations (2012, background): “The third dimension, solidarity expectations, are expectations of sharing mutual activities (Wright, 2006), being invited to share common activities (Bigelow & La Gaipa, 1980), and friendship inclusion maintenance (Oswald et al., 2004).”