Journal
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 26, Issue 8, Pages 1304-1315Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0956797615588751
Keywords
friends; relationship dissolution; survival analysis; aggression; peer acceptance
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- U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [HD068421]
- U.S. National Science Foundation [1248598, 0909733]
- University of Connecticut Research Foundation
- Direct For Education and Human Resources
- Division Of Research On Learning [1248598] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Research On Learning
- Direct For Education and Human Resources [0909733] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The present study examined whether adolescent friendships dissolve because of characteristics of friends, differences between friends, or both. Participants were 410 adolescents (201 boys, 209 girls; mean age = 13.20 years) who reported a total of 573 reciprocated friendships that originated in the seventh grade. We conducted discrete-time survival analyses, in which peer nominations and teacher ratings collected in Grade 7 predicted the occurrence and timing of friendship dissolution across Grades 8 to 12. Grade 7 individual characteristics were unrelated to friendship stability, but Grade 7 differences in sex, peer acceptance, physical aggression, and school competence predicted subsequent friendship dissolution. The findings suggest that compatibility is a function of similarity between friends rather than the presence or absence of a particular trait.
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