The Company They Keep: Friendships in Childhood and Adolescence (Cambridge Studies in Social and Emotional Development) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521627257 ISBN 13: 9780521627252

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Friendship is one of life's most essential and rewarding forms of interaction--a feature of every culture that most persons experience daily. While most research efforts on friendship have concentrated on such issues as peer acceptance and dyadic properties, there has been little exploration of friendship's role in a child's social and emotional growth. The Company They Keep provides a forum in which a group of internationally recognized scholars presents the major conceptual issues, themes, goals, methodological strategies and findings from their research on friendship. Contributors explore a variety of topics, including cultural variations in childrens' and adolescents' friendships, the association between friendship and cognitive and personality development, the effect of friendship on adjustment, and the links between experience within the family and relationships with friends.

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Book Description:

The Company They Keep provides a forum in which a group of internationally recognized scholars presents the major conceptual issues, themes, and findings from their research on childhood friendships. It focuses on three broad issues. First, it is concerned with the processes that affect the development of friendship during childhood and adolescence. Second, it examines how experience with friends is linked to cognitive, social, and moral development. Third, it considers the ways that friendship influences emotional and social adjustment. The authors also express their views on future directions for such research.

From the Back Cover:

Friendship is one of life's most essential and rewarding forms of interaction. It is a feature of every culture and most persons interact with their friends on a daily basis. Thus far, most research on the subject of friendship has concentrated on peer acceptance, dyadic properties, and the contribution that friendship makes to development and adjustment. There has been little exploration of friendship's role in a child's social and emotional growth. The Company They Keep pioneers this area. This book provides a forum in which internationally recognized scholars active in the study of friendship present the major conceptual issues, themes, and findings from their research. The authors describe the theoretical and empirical context and the goals of their own research programs. They discuss current research and the methodological strategies adopted for studying friendship relations. A variety of topics is explored, including cultural variations in children's and adolescents' friendships, the association between friendship and cognitive and personality development, the effect of friendship on adjustment, and the links between experience within the family and relationships with friends. The authors also express their views on future directions for such research. This book will appeal to developmental psychologists, researchers, and students. It will also be a solid reference work for social psychologists, sociologists, and social workers concerned with interpersonal relationships.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0521627257
• ISBN 13: 9780521627252
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 440
• Editor: Bukowski William M., Newcomb Andrew F., Hartup Willard W.