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Showing 1 to 20 of 378 for “"Friendships"”.
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Depressed Children's Friendships
… contained comparable frequencies of ""reciprocal friendships"" (i.e., both children selected one another as one of their top three friends) and ""nonreciprocal friendships"" (i.e., the target child selected the partner as one of their top three friends, but the partner did not reciprocate). …
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Cross-Sex Friendships in a Changing Society: A Comparative Analysis of Cross-Sex Friendships, Same-Sex Friendships, and Romantic Relationships
… conditions predicting the frequency of cross-sex friendships, to investigate the functions those friendships serve, and to determine in what ways the communication of cross-sex friends might be differentiated from that of same-sex friends and romantic partners.
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Transcending Private Friendships to Public Hearts: Implications of Interracial Friendships for Public Life
An increasingly multicultural society presents both challenges and opportunities to the public sphere. These challenges are frequently answered with calls for diversity and inclusion. However, this project suggests that interracial friendship overcomes the inherent limitations of diversity and …
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Friendships across time and space: the effects of a life transition on friendships
… options have created the opportunity to maintain friendships while not being geographically proximate. However, research examining the friendship dynamics of long-distance friends is rare, and the effects of communication and personality on long-distance friendship maintenance have not been fully …
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Exploitative friendships : manipulating asymmetric alliances
This dissertation is the first systematic analysis of variation in alliance behavior in the context of asymmetric international security alliances. When weak states ally with stronger states - i.e. states with significantly greater military capabilities - what explains differences in the junior …
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Friendships and family ties in Vergil
… explored by the many Vergil admirers.</p><p> Friendships and Family Ties seemed to have been treated by no writer under such a title nor to have been discussed at length in any book or article. Here was presented an opportunity to renew my acquaintance with Vergil through a more intimate and …
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The Qualities of Thomas Gray's Friendships
In writing upon "The Qualities of Thomas Gray's Friendships,” the writer chose a subject that would give her an opportunity to study a literary figure the had long admired. She wanted to assume a point of view differing from any the had encountered. She felt that her thesis could be substantiated, …
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Cross-group friendships and skin tone perceptions
… to explain the relationship between intragroup friendships/interactions and perceptions toward that group. Allport’s hypothesis had been scrutinized as an intervention for reducing prejudices and biases against groups who collectively experience discrimination. This theory was mainly tested in …
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Female Friendships in Doris Lessing's Novels (Zimbabwe)
The nature and scope of Lessing's feminism has been controversial, yet the apparent contradiction between Lessing's avowed lack of sympathy with the women's movement, and feminists' persistent interest in her work can be resolved by understanding the parameters of Lessing's identification with …
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Male-Female Workplace Friendships: Third Party Coworkers' Perceptions of and Behavior toward Organizational Peers in Cross-Sex Workplace Friendships
… professional working relationships, to workplace friendships, to romantic relationships at work. Cross-sex (male-female) workplace relationships, including friendships, are especially important for women, as research suggests they may help women to break through the "glass ceiling." Cross-sex …
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The nature, function and development of imaginary friendships
OBJECTIVE: To explore the nature, function and development of the relationship that some children have with an imaginary companion.<br/><br/>BACKGROUND: The focus of much recent research on imaginary companions has been on comparing children who do and do not have one. Studies that gain a deeper …
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DISCLOSURE DECISION MODEL: ANALYSIS OF PRIVATE AND WORKPLACE FRIENDSHIPS
… study is to examine how private and workplace friendships differ in emotional closeness and perceived support. The second goal is to utilize the disclosure decision model (DDM) to determine how relationship context impacts disclosure goals and disclosure characteristics. Data were collected …
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Gender Role Orientation in Same- and Cross-Gender Friendships
… and the strength and rewardingness of their friendships. The study was guided by a series of questions centered around the assumption that androgynous individuals exhibit greater behavioral flexibility from one situation to another. Androgynous individuals were expected to provide a broader …
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Men's friendships as social justice: negotiating masculinities and certainty
… have demonstrated that leisure activities and friendships impact men’s identity formation, as well as mental and physical health. While women’s leisure and interpersonal relationships have been examined as negotiation sites for gendered expectations, there have been few recent empirical studies …
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Relationship maintenance differences in close and casual friendships on Facebook
Social media, notably Facebook, has become ubiquitous in American life. There is a great deal of anecdotal evidence that a primary use of this technology is the maintenance of relationships with friends and family. The extent to which relationships can be maintained, and the type of relationships …
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More than Gal Pals: Female Romantic Friendships in Northanger Abbey
… Morland and her female companions as romantic friendships characterized by emotional and potentially sexual intimacy. Ultimately, I argue that the romantic friendship between Catherine Morland and Eleanor Tilney provides clear guidelines for the appropriate behavior in same-sex …
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Comparing friendships of college students from intact and divorced families
… the differences in quality and quantity of friendships in young adults with divorced parents compared to young adults from intact families. To identify this, college students (n=25) from a Mid-Atlantic University filled out a questionnaire related to friendship. The participants who fell …
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School integration and the friendships of youth with developmental disabilities
… into the effect ofschool integration on the friendships ofyouth with developmental disabilities and their peers without disabilities. The youths, their parents, and their teachers provided insights into the youths' friendships. A qualitative paradigm was used in this research. The researcher …
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Experiences of Agricultural Education Preservice Teachers Engaging in Critical Friendships
… of critical friend. Participants found critical friendships to be beneficial, but cautioned that there were certain characteristics that allowed their critical friendships to develop.</p>
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Tractarian Male Friendships, Intimacies, and Identities in Nineteenth-Century England
… the Oxford Movement through the lenses of friendships and intimacies; which, I contend, were at the centre of the Tractarian Movement because of the way in which the chronologies of these friendships point towards an earlier starting point for the Oxford Movement and because of the way in …
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