This study of Israeli and American preadolescent children examined characteristics of friendship in 44 children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (HFASD) compared to 38 typically developing children (TYP), as they interacted with a close friend Participants were 8-12 years of age (HFASD: Israel, n = 24; USA, n = 20; TYP: Israel, n = 23; USA, n = 15), and were matched on SES, recept...

It is easy to slip into sentimental platitudes when talking about friendship. Great writers such as Cicero and Montaigne avoided this pitfall, but mainly by describing not what friendship is, but what it ought to be. The close connection of intimate comradeship Wlth mental health is being increasingly recognised. A few aspects of this connection will here be outlined. In the first place, the ty...

The friendship paradox is the phenomenon that in social networks, people on average have fewer friends than their friends do. The generalized friendship paradox is an extension to attributes other than the number of friends. The friendship paradox and its generalized version have gathered recent attention due to the information they provide about network structure and local inequalities. In thi...

An experience sampling study tested the degree to which interactions with out-group members evoked negative affect and behavioural inhibition after controlling for level of friendship between partners. When friendship level was statistically controlled, neither White nor Black participants reported feeling more discomfort interacting with ethnic out-group members compared to ethnic in-group mem...

The past decades have witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of youths using the Internet, especially for communicating with peers. Online activity can widen and strengthen the social networks of adolescents and emerging adults (Subrahmanyam & Smahel, 2011), but it also increases the risk of Internet addiction. Using a framework derived from Griffiths (2000a), this study examined associati...

OBJECTIVES Friendships contribute uniquely to well-being in (late) adulthood. However, studies on friendship often ignore interindividual differences in friendship patterns. The aim of this study was to investigate such differences including their predictors. METHOD The study builds on Matthews's qualitative model of friendship styles. Matthews distinguished 3 approaches to friendship differi...

The purpose of this study was to examine age and gender differences in the quality of sport friendship, assess the relationship between friendship quality and motivation related variables, and obtain additional support for the validity of the Sport Friendship Quality Scale (SFQS; Weiss & Smith, 1999). Tennis players (N = 191, ages 10–18 years) completed the SFQS and other measures salient to th...

“Friendship dams” are an explicit, yet underexplored, materialization of hydropolitics that illustrate the potential role water in international cooperation. Via a case study analysis Syria-Turkey Friendship Dam project proposed for Asi/Orontes river, we trace process cooperation led to use this notion “friendship” transboundary Using transversal different phases and non-cooperation, consider b...