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McDonald, Kristina L.; Dashiell-Aje, Ebony; Menzer, Melissa M.; Rubin, Kenneth H.; Oh, Wonjung; Bowker, Julie C. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2013
The current study examined how racial and sociobehavioral similarities were associated with friendship stability and friendship quality. Cross-race friends were not significantly similar to each other in peer-nominated shyness/withdrawal, victimization, exclusion, and popularity/sociability. Relative to same-race friends, cross-race friends were…
Descriptors: Friendship, Race, Prediction, Adolescents
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Bowker, Julie C. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2011
This study examined young adolescents' experiences with best friendship dissolution. Participants were 77 sixth-grade students (M age = 11.63 years, SD = 0.36; 11.00-12.69 age range) who reported on past experiences with (1) "complete dissolutions" (when friendship ties are completely severed), and (2) "downgrade dissolutions"…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Friendship, Adolescents, Psychological Patterns
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Trucco, Elisa M.; Colder, Craig R.; Bowker, Julie C.; Wieczorek, William F. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2011
Though peer socialization theories are prominent in the adolescent substance use literature, variability in the degree to which adolescents are vulnerable to peer influence is likely, and few studies have examined this issue. This study examines the association between perceived peer substance use/approval of substance use and adolescent…
Descriptors: Socialization, Prevention, Early Adolescents, Risk