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Choice of Friends over the Life Span: Developmental and Environmental Influences. Report No. 345.
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Epstein, Joyce L. – 1983
Previous research on friendship selection has failed to focus on how the selection process changes with age or in differently organized environments. This review of the literature takes a life-course perspective on the selection of friends, charting research results on three aspects of the selection process: (1) the number of friends and their…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Educational Environment, Friendship, Individual Characteristics