Research indicates social anxiety is associated with lower friendship quality, but little is known about the underlying mechanisms. This 2-month longitudinal study examined social withdrawal as a mediator of the social anxiety-friendship quality link in a sample of 214 adolescents (M[subscript age] = 13.1 years, SD = 0.73) that included an…

Examined the role of sophistication in interpersonal negotiation strategies in the formation of friendships. Subjects were 74 adolescents who began the academic year in a new school following an intercommunity move. Found that adolescents with medium and high scores on measures of peer negotiation formed intimate friendships within three months,…

This study examined how relocation to a new community affects intimacy and companionship in close friendships by comparing experiences of early adolescents who began their 7th or 8th grade school year in a new community (111 boys, 96 girls) with those of residentially stable agemates (30 boys, 38 girls). Drawing from a developmental contextual,…