A survival analysis of adolescent friendships: : The downside of dissimilarity

• Autores: Amy C. Hartl, Brett Laursen, Antonius H. N. Cillessen
• Localización: Psychological Science, ISSN-e 1467-9280, Vol. 26, Nº. 8, 2015, págs. 1304-1315
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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