The study examined whether reciprocal friendship quantity or quality can mitigate genetic vulnerability for depression symptoms in children. The sample comprised 168 monozygotic twin pairs and 126 same-sex dizygotic twin pairs assessed in Grade 4 (mean age = 10.04 years). Friendship participation was measured via reciprocal nominations of close friendships within the classroom. Friendship quali...

Two longitudinal studies examined associations between relational aggression and friendship quality during adolescence. In Study 1, 62 adolescents in Grades 6 (25.8%), 7 (32.3%), and 8 (41.9%) completed assessments of friendship affiliations, relational and overt aggression, and friendship quality at 2 time points, 1 year apart. Results using actor partner interdependence modeling indicated tha...

A transactional, interpersonal framework involving adolescents' reassurance-seeking and peer experiences may be useful for understanding the emergence of gender differences in depression prevalence during the adolescent transition. Sociometric nominations of peer acceptance/rejection and ratings of friendship quality provided by adolescents and their friends were used to measure peer experience...

Social network sites have attracted millions of users with the social revolution in Web 2.0. In the social network sites, a user can register other users as friends and enjoy communication. However, users of social network sites may easily get overwhelmed by the excessive volume of friend information. Recently context-aware mobile devices have been thoroughly integrated into all walks of life. ...

: the purpose of this study is to identify the gender differences in identity styles, commitment and quality of friendship. for this reason, 400 high school students from 19 educational regions in tehran (males –females) are chosen randomly. three scales are administrated: identity style inventory-six grade (white et al, 1998), quality of friendship (hejazi, zohrevand, 1380) and socio-metric qu...

The social Web is going mobile and needs support for friendship management in a distributed manner, while privacy concerns mandate con guring the public visibility of one's friends. In this paper we leverage existing Web standards to describe a simple P2P protocol for establishing, enforcing, and revoking hidden friendship relations and report on an implementation for a mobile platform. We exam...

Family education and growing psychological problems in junior high school students have raised serious concerns recent years. This study investigated the relationship between strict parental discipline problem behavior students. 1,067 Junior were enrolled based on several variables –strict discipline, self-esteem level friendship quality –to examine their age group. Our found that: (1) could co...