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ERIC Number: EJ539850
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1996
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
Behavioral, Affective, and Social Correlates of Involvement in Cross-Sex Friendship in Elementary School.
Kovacs, Donna M.; And Others
Child Development, v67 n5 p2269-86 Oct 1996
Compared 723 third- and fourth-graders with and without cross-sex friends on measures of social and cognitive competence, endorsement of sex role stereotypes, and family composition. Found that children with primarily opposite-sex friends had poorer social skills than children with mostly same-sex friends, although they were less stereotyped about sex roles than other children. (MDM)
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Ability, Family Characteristics, Friendship, Interpersonal Competence, Racial Differences, Sex Differences, Sex Stereotypes
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Cross Sex Friendship; Same Sex Friendship