Summary: Displays of lifestyle and aesthetic preference are considered important social indicators in complex, modern society. Such indicators are thought to influence first impressions of other persons and also to affect these persons' appeal as ...
Intra- and interethnic friendship quality of boys and girls of German, Turkish, and Italian originAbstract. This contribution addresses the question of similarity or difference in the quality of intra- and interethnic friendships in adolescence. ...
Friendships in the Classroom and Their Importance for Adaptive Individual Dealing with ErrorsAbstract. Learning from errors can be effective – provided that learners are able to deal with them in an adaptive manner. Affective-...
Abstract: Organizations trying to attract talents sometimes promise friendships or family-like workplace relations in their job advertisements. This research examined how jobseekers of different ages react to such promises of communal ...
Friendship, Symmetries, and Markings of Difference. Negotiations and Conflicts in Peer Relationships From the Perspective of Children in ECEC-CentersAbstract. The article focuses on research about children as “stakeholders” in daycare ...
The participants, 128 Greek and 137 USA university women, listed the number of accessible friends—individuals who could be called upon to socialize in five different events—and the number of inclusive friends—those who would invite the subject to ...
Abstract. This article examines changes in the co-development of personality characteristics and friendships across the lifespan. We address how personality traits shape friendship development (i.e., selection effects) and how friendships ...
Abstract. The present study examined the relationship between resilience and positive outcomes in friendships of young adults. SEM and bootstrapping analyses were performed to test whether positive emotions mediate the relationship between ...
Abstract: Friendships pervade people’s social lives across their lifespans. But how accurately can friends perceive each other’s personalities? Person perceptions are typically a mixture of fact and fiction, but as friends share a lot of information, ...
Why do people use spatial language to describe social relationships? In particular, to what extent do they anchor their thoughts about friendship in terms of space? Three experiments used drawing and estimation tasks to further explore the conceptual ...
Previous research documented differences in friendship such that people in various North American settings reported more friends, emphasized emotional support, and de-emphasized instrumental support relative to ...