Friendship and friendship quality in middle childhood
Links with peer group acceptance and feelings of loneliness and social dissatisfaction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9796345 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeffrey G Parker (University of Michigan, corresponding author), Steven R Asher |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 611-621 |
| Publication date | 1993-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Developmental Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-1649 • E-ISSN: 1939-0599 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0012-1649.29.4.611 |
| OpenAlex | W2151689175 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 555 |
| References cited | 12 |
The distinction between friendship adjustment and acceptance by the peer group was examined. Third- through 5th-grade children (N = 881) completed sociometric measures of acceptance and friendship, a measure of loneliness, a questionnaire on the features of their very best friendships, and a measure of their friendship satisfaction. Results indicated that many low-accepted children had best friends and were satisfied with these friendships. However, these children's friendships were lower than those of other children on most dimensions of quality. Having a friend, friendship quality, and group acceptance made separate contributions to the prediction of loneliness
Developmental psychology · Feeling · Friendship · Interpersonal relationship · Loneliness · Peer acceptance · Peer group · Peer relations · Psychotherapist · Social isolation · Sociometry · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Psychology · Social Psychology
Parental Separation and Children's Peer Relations
Attachment and Adolescent Offending
The Development of Social and Communicative Competence in Childhood
L’influence du groupe de pairs sur la consommation de substances psychoactives licites et illicites à l’adolescence
Friendship in school-age boys with autism spectrum disorders
Developing Emotional Intelligence in Social and Emotional Learning
Adolescents, Parents, Friends/PeersWe thank D. Breakstone, M. Kerr, R. M. Lerner, H. Stattin, and C. Yuen. Preparation was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH, NICHD.
School Adjustment
Peer Groups
Adolescent Issues
Where is the child's environment? A group socialization theory of development.
Peer Relationships and Social Competence During Early and Middle Childhood
The Role of Peer Relationships in Adjustment to College
Peer Acceptance and Friendship as Predictors of Early Adolescents' Adjustment Across the Middle School Transition
Co–Rumination in the Friendships of Girls and Boys
Developmental Patterns in Security of Attachment to Mother and Father in Late Childhood and Early Adolescence
Social-motivational processes and interpersonal relationships
Emotion Regulation and Psychopathology
Do Relational Risks and Protective Factors Moderate the Linkages between Childhood Aggression and Early Psychological and School Adjustment?
Popularity, Friendship Quantity, and Friendship Quality
Charting the Relationship Trajectories of Aggressive, Withdrawn, and Aggressive/Withdrawn Children during Early Grade School
Family Adversity, Positive Peer Relationships, and Children’s Externalizing Behavior
Childhood peer relationships
Profiles of adolescent stress
Do risk factors for problem behaviour act in a cumulative manner? An examination of ethnic minority and majority children through an ecological perspective
The allure of a mean friend
The Relationship of Loneliness and Social Anxiety with Children's and Adolescents' Online Communication
Social supports from teachers and peers as predictors of academic and social motivation
Trajectories of aggression from toddlerhood to age 9 predict academic and social functioning through age 12
Prospective Relations Among Victimization, Rejection, Friendlessness, and Children's Self- and Peer-Perceptions
Understanding loneliness during adolescence
The Timing of Middle-Childhood Peer Rejection and Friendship
Moderators of Peer Contagion
I am so Happy ’Cause Today I Found My Friend
Trajectories of Peer Victimization and Perceptions of the Self and Schoolmates
School belongingness, well-being, and mental health among adolescents
Preadolescent Friendship and Peer Rejection as Predictors of Adult Adjustment
Classroom risks and resources
Relational and Physical Victimization Within Friendships
Peer Relationships in Adolescence
False Consensus and Adolescent Peer Contagion
Peer Relations Across Contexts
Loneliness Across the Life Span
Social Participation of Students with Special Needs in Regular Primary Education in the Netherlands
Emotion regulation and understanding
Trajectories of Social Withdrawal from Middle Childhood to Early Adolescence
Relations of Parenting Styles and Friendship Quality to Self-Esteem, Life Satisfaction and Happiness in Adolescents
Developmental changes and gender differences in adolescents' perceptions of friendships
Loneliness and Peer Relations in Childhood
Peer Interactions, Relationships, and Groups
Parent–child cohesion, friend companionship and left-behind children's emotional adaptation in rural China
The clinical significance of loneliness
Friendships in Middle School
Developmental Trajectories of Bullying and Associated Factors
Lonely hearts
The protective role of supportive friends against bullying perpetration and victimization
Influence of Deviant Friends on Delinquency
The Best Friendships of Shy/Withdrawn Children
Psychosocial Benefits of Cross-Ethnic Friendships in Urban Middle Schools
The teacher-child relationship and children's early school adjustment
The Role of Chronic Peer Difficulties in the Development of Children's Psychological Adjustment Problems
Sozialkapital Intersektional
Do Materialists Prefer the “Brand-as-Servant”? The Interactive Effect of Anthropomorphized Brand Roles and Materialism on Consumer Responses
Peer Victimization and Friendship Quality
Children’s experiences of positive affect with pet dogs
Are children’s relationships with pet dogs uniquely related to children’s social and emotional competence and adjustment
The Mediating Role of Self-mastery and the Regulating Effect of Friendship Quality between Strict Parental Discipline and the Problem Behavior of Junior High School Students in China
The Role of Social Skills on Bullying Behavior Tendency with Friendship Quality as Mediator
Lying to friends
Diseño y validación de una Escala de Amistad de Carácter para jóvenes
Implementation matters
Relational inclusivity
Navigating Social Inclusion
Parent-Child Communication and Children’s Democratic Citizenship
Roles of Achievement, Impulse Control, Gender, and Democratic Parenting as Predictors of Friendship Quality Among Students
Mapping in Loneliness Research in the Ten Psychology‐Related Web of Science Categories in the Social Science Citation Index
İş-Aile Çatışması, Yabancılaşma ve Psikolojik Belirtiler
What is Known About the Role of Friendship in Adolescent Self-Harm? A Review and Thematic Synthesis
I’ll be online for you
Friendship quality in adolescence
The impact of parental conflict on adolescent internalizing problems
Network analysis of comorbid depression and anxiety and their associations with friendship among adolescents
The longitudinal reciprocal relations among friendship quality, positivity and prosocial behavior in chinese early adolescents
Interparental conflict and adolescent non-suicidal self-injury
Multigroup analysis of the relationship loneliness, fear of missing out, problematic internet usage and peer perception in gifted and normally developing adolescents
Childhood emotional neglect and adolescent depression
Negative parenting styles and social adjustment of university students
The role of peer relationships among elementary school students
Exploring the profiles of aggressive behavior among college students
Parent–child conflict and friendship quality of Chinese adolescence
How is dialect ostracism associated with mental health of migrant children? The chained mediation through social support and peer relationship
Parent-adolescent relationship and friendship quality
Emerging adults’ help seeking from friends
The effects of family functioning on alexithymia among adolescents
Friendship quality and positive emotional adjustment among boarding adolescents
Childhood abuse and adolescent internalizing problems
Network analysis of the relationship between friendship quality and social adaptation among children and adolescents in China
The role of childhood illness in shaping relationships through to young adulthood
Does teacher burnout affect students? A systematic review of its association with academic achievement and student-reported outcomes
A collaborative small-group discussion approach to improving fifth graders’ use of academic, relational, social, and emotional vocabulary
Peer rejection in childhood
Peer Interaction of Young Children
Loneliness in Children
How Children Become Friends
Friendship in Normal and Socially Deviant Children
Girlfriend, boyfriend
Children's perceptions of their peer experiences
Friendship patterns and altruistic behavior in preadolescent males
Children's perceptions of the personal relationships in their social networks
Peer rejection in middle school
Children's perceptions of friendships as supportive relationships
Some dangers of using personality questionnaires to study personality
| Unique citing works | 555 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 16,82 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2026 (34) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 550 |