@article{ref1,
title="A survival analysis of adolescent friendships: the downside of dissimilarity",
journal="Psychological science",
year="2015",
author="Hartl, Amy C. and Laursen, Brett and Cillessen, Antonius H. N.",
volume="26",
number="8",
pages="1304-1315",
abstract="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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0956-7976",
doi="10.1177/0956797615588751",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797615588751"
}