@article{ref1,
title="Friendship in children with internalizing and externalizing problems: a preliminary investigation with the Pictorial Assessment of Interpersonal Relationships",
journal="Children and youth services review",
year="2013",
author="Laghi, Fiorenzo and Baiocco, Roberto and Cannoni, Eleonora and Di Norcia, Anna and Baumgartner, Emma and Bombi, Anna Silvia",
volume="35",
number="7",
pages="1095-1100",
abstract="This study examined the relationship between friendship representation and internalizing and externalizing problems in school-aged children. One hundred Caucasian 6-7 year-old children (50 males and 50 females) and their mothers took part in the study. The Draw-a-Man Test, the Pictorial Assessment of Interpersonal Relationships, and the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL/6-18) were used. Children with internalizing problems, externalizing problems, comorbid internalizing and externalizing problems, and a control group were compared on their pictorial representations of friendship. <br><br>RESULTS showed that children with externalizing problems included more pictorial indices of each friend's autonomy and a larger imbalance of importance between them; children with internalizing problems drew themselves as less similar to their friends. In conclusion, children's pictorial representation allows exploring some aspects of their tacit knowledge about the relationship with a best friend, which is not easily expressed verbally by young children. Finally, the implications of these findings for theoretical and empirical research development on friendship are discussed.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0190-7409",
doi="10.1016/j.childyouth.2013.05.007",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2013.05.007"
}