Friendship

Question 1

What is friendship?

Answer 1

• The preference of some peers over others
• Close relationship with peers
• Changes throughout the years

Question 2

Is friends important?

Answer 2

• Important role in emotional and social development, preschooler and up
• Solving problems

Question 3

How does childrens views on friendship develop?

Answer 3

• Seen as in stages

1. Handy playmate 4-7
   - Someone who like you, you play with and shares toys with you
   - Shallow and friendships ends quickly
2. Mutual Trust and Assistance 8-10
   - Psychologically driven
   - More complex
   - Like each others personalities and respond to needs and desire of friends
   - Trust and support is important, apologies and explanataions are needed to solve conflicts
3. Intimacy, Shared understanding and loyalty 11 years +
   - Values, beliefs and feelings
   - Lead to close friendships
   - Loyal friends that stand up for you is more important
   - Important for coping psychological distress, lonliness, sadness and fear

• Friendships gets more selective over time, smaller friendgroups compared to younger kids

Question 4

How does friends interact with each other?

Answer 4

• All have unique interactions
• Different types of friendship
• Positive and negative influence
• Prosocial behavior
• Less possesive with age
• Rivalry, dont wanna loose to another equal
• Voicing opinions, tolerate critique

Question 5

How does resemblance occur between friends?

Answer 5

• Pick someone similar in attitudes and values, can merge over time
• Look at physical attributes first, personality later
• Some friends are different, for social influence or finding yourself

Question 6

What are sex differences in friendship?

Answer 6

• Girls; emotional close and exclusive
• Boys; competetive activites and games
• Gender roles expectations influence
• Early adolescense, popular and unpopulare youth more likely to have friend from another sex

Question 7

What are benefits and costs of close friendship?

Answer 7

Benefits
- Sharing deeper feelings - Increase quality of connectiom

Cost
-Repetetive attention on problems - Co-rumination, linked with anxiety and depression

Question 8

How important is friendship for youths adjustment?

Answer 8

• High quality: linked with psychological health and competence early adulthood
• Outcomes of close friendships
  Explore oneself, deep understanding of another person
  Foundation for future relationship
  Coping with daily stress
  Improve attitudes towards school
• Lack of friends may be sign of undesireable traits