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ERIC Number: EJ133167
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1975
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Children's Written Descriptions of Friendship: A Multidimensional Analysis
Bigelow, Brian J.; La Gaipa, John J.
Developmental Psychology, 11, 6, 857-858, Nov 75
This study examined the conceptual variables that influence friendship as a function of developmental age. Teachers asked students to write an essay about what they expected in their best friends. An analysis of their responses indicated an age-related transition from egocentric to sociocentric and sociocentric to empathic expectations. (JMB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Egocentrism, Elementary Education, Empathy, Expectation, Friendship
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Identifiers: Sociocentrism