Peer relationships

Attachment and Peer Relationships

This study examined adolescents’ representations of attachment and peer relationships as predictors of delinquency. Data were gathered from a sample of 151 racially and socioeconomically diverse at-risk adolescents. Results revealed a relationship between peer relationships and delinquency, such that adolescents with better peer relationships had lower levels of delinquency. In addition, an int...

Peer Relationships in Adolescence

For decades, scholars have pointed to peer relationships as one of the most important features of adolescence. Peers have been alternately blamed for some of the more problematic aspects of adolescent functioning and praised for contributing to adolescent health and well being. Recently, researchers have pushed the study of peer relations in exciting new directions, using more sophisticated met...

Childhood peer relationships in context

Peer Interactions, Relationships, and Groups

PEER INTERACTION AND RELATIONSHIPS—AN HISTORICAL OVERVIEW 573 Early North American Research 573 Post-World War II 574 INTERACTIONS, RELATIONSHIPS, AND GROUPS: ORDERS OF COMPLEXITY IN CHILDREN’S PEER EXPERIENCES 575 Interactions 576 Relationships 577 Groups 578 Culture 579 Summary 580 THEORIES RELEVANT TO THE STUDY OF CHILDREN’S PEER INTERACTIONS, RELATIONSHIPS, AND GROUPS 581 Personality Theori...

Reduction Over Time to Facilitate Peer-to-Peer Barter Relationships

A peer-to-peer complementary currency can be a powerful tool for promoting exchanges and building relationships on the Internet. i-WAT [1] is a proposed such currency based on the WAT System [2], a polycentric complementary currency using WAT tickets as its media of exchange: participants spontaneously issue and circulate the tickets as needed, whose values are backed up by chains of trust. i-W...