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Oh, Jeewon; Chopik, William J.; Nuttall, Amy K. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2020
Previous research has offered mixed evidence on whether obligation in relationships benefits or harms individuals and their relationships. Given that few studies are prospective and consider multiple close relationships, we used 18-year longitudinal data to model whether obligation is associated with differences in relational and individual…
Descriptors: Responsibility, Well Being, Correlation, Adults
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Pettit, Gregory S.; Erath, Stephen A.; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Bates, John E. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2011
The predictive relations between social capital depth (high-quality relationships across contexts) and breadth (friendship network extensivity) and early-adult life adjustment outcomes were examined using data from a prospective longitudinal study. Interviews at age 22 yielded (a) psychometrically sound indexes of relationship quality with…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Social Capital, Adjustment (to Environment), Longitudinal Studies
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Hertz-Lazarowitz, Rachel; And Others – 1976
Children (N=408) from three experimental infant schools in Israel were observed during their free play for three consecutive weeks, using observational categories based on Parten's (1932) work. Findings based on 2,157 observations provide norms of social behavior and organization for ages five to seven, an age group which was not studied…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Children, Elementary Education, Friendship
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Goodnight, Jackson A.; Bates, John E.; Newman, Joseph P.; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Pettit, Gregory S. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2006
This study investigated the interactive effects of friend deviance and reward dominance on the development of externalizing behavior of adolescents in the Child Development Project. Reward dominance was assessed at age 16 by performance on a computer-presented card-playing game in which participants had the choice of either continuing or…
Descriptors: Friendship, Rewards, Behavior Development, Adolescents
Mannarino, Anthony P. – 1976
The theoretical perspective of Sullivan proposes that during preadolescence, a "chum" relationship increases a child's sense of self-worth. Subjects were 60 male sixth graders, with an equal number in the chumship and non-chumship groups. Self-concept was measured with the Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale. The results show that…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Development, Behavior Rating Scales, Children
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Benenson, Joyce F. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1994
Study of same-sex play networks found that between ages four and six, the size of girls' play networks decreases along with the number of girls excluded. Although results did not confirm the hypothesis that the size of boys' play networks increases, there was a trend for boys in the older classes to exclude fewer playmates from their networks. (AA)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Childhood Attitudes, Ethology, Friendship
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Engels, Rutger C. M. E.; Vitaro, Frank; Blokland, Endy Den Exter; de Kemp, Raymond; Scholte, Ron H. J. – Journal of Adolescence, 2004
Concerning the role of parental smoking on development of adolescent smoking, most studies have exclusively focused on the direct effects of parents' smoking on youths' smoking. However, parental smoking may also play an indirect role by affecting youths' susceptibility to peer influences and by affecting friendship selection. Data were from a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Friendship, Smoking, Peer Influence