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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"friendship maintenance"”.
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Friendship characteristics associated with adolescent friendship maintenance and dissolution
… the association between early adolescents' friendship features and friendship outcomes (maintenance vs. dissolution and overall quality) following friendship problems. Also of interest was whether the reported causes of friendship problems and friendship dissolution differed. Early …
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Friendships across time and space: the effects of a life transition on friendships
While friendship over distance was once rare, numerous new technological 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 …
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African-American males with mental retardation: Friendship formation and maintenance in community-based employment
… usually have difficulty forming and maintaining friendships, especially with individuals who do not have disabilities. This study investigates that conclusion for African-American males. Using qualitative methodology, including multiple interviews, participant observation, and an ethnographic …
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A uses and gratifications perspective of Chinese college students' motivations in using renren (Chinese social networking site)
… including: 1) vision and outlook expansion, 2) friendship maintenance, 3) a sense of self-worth, 4) information seeking, 5) entertainment, and 6) cultivated as a habit, to pass time. In addition, Chinese college students seem to have independent self-construal rather than interdependent …
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WE'RE FRIENDS, LET'S TALK: RELIGION, SELF-DISCLOSURE AND MANAGING THE OPENNESS AND CLOSEDNESS DIALECTIC IN FRIENDSHIPS
… of the response, this project also examined friendship levels (i.e., close friend, friend, and acquaintance), the friend's view of religion (i.e., favorable or unfavorable), and the subject's own commitment to religion, to determine if they influenced a religious person's self-disclosure …
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The Heterogeneity of Adolescent Factors: Investigating Individual, Interpersonal, and Contextual Factors
Friendship is an essential relationship, and its importance is particularly pronounced in adolescence. While it is known to be an important peer relationship, it is both dynamic and complex, meaning there are many aspects of adolescent friendship that remain to be understood. With my dissertation, …
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Exploring Community Creation: Conversations of Young Black Women
… the other person laugh and code switches did friendship maintenance work. From the WhatsApp conversations, one can therefore deduce that these young black women's use of language and linguistic matter – albeit in a virtual space – play an important role in creating community in that both …