The Company They Keep Friendships in Childhood and Adolescence |
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Editor:
| Bukowski, William M. Newcomb, Andrew F. Hartup, Willard W. |
Contribution by:
| Hartup, Willard W. Shantz, Carolyn Eisenberg, Nancy Emde, Robert Hoffman, Lois Maccoby, Eleanor E. Monks, Franz J. Parke, Ross Rutter, Michael Zahn-Waxler, Carolyn |
Series title: | Cambridge Studies in Social and Emotional Development Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-521-62725-2 |
Publication Date: | Mar 1998 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $52.99 |
Book Description:
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The Company They Keep provides a forum in which a group of internationally recognized scholars presents the major conceptual issues, themes, and findings from their research on childhood friendships. It focuses on three broad issues. First, it is concerned with the processes that affect the development of friendship during childhood and adolescence. Second, it examines how experience with friends is linked to cognitive, social, and moral development. Third, it considers the ways that...
More DescriptionThe Company They Keep provides a forum in which a group of internationally recognized scholars presents the major conceptual issues, themes, and findings from their research on childhood friendships. It focuses on three broad issues. First, it is concerned with the processes that affect the development of friendship during childhood and adolescence. Second, it examines how experience with friends is linked to cognitive, social, and moral development. Third, it considers the ways that friendship influences emotional and social adjustment. The authors also express their views on future directions for such research.