TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - A survival analysis of adolescent friendships: the downside of dissimilarity
JO  - Psychological science
A1  - Hartl, Amy C.
A1  - Laursen, Brett
A1  - Cillessen, Antonius H. N.
SP  - 1304
EP  - 1315
VL  - 26
IS  - 8
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0956-7976
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797615588751
ID  - ref1
ER  -