Friendship-making is considered a well-established domain of deficit for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD; American Psychiatric Association, 2013), with this population sometimes described as incapable of making friends. However, the majority of children with ASD indicate a desire for friends, and many report having friends. To what degree, then, do youth with ASD succeed in achievi...

It has become commonplace to hold the view that virtual surrogates for the things that are good in life are inferior to their actual, authentic counterparts, including virtual education, virtual skill-demanding activities and virtual acts of creativity. Virtual friendship has also been argued to be inferior to traditional, embodied forms of friendship. Coupled with the view that virtual friends...

Friendship is a close relationship in which people share mutual activities, develop social network, fell accepted, help each other, and develop trust, mutual respect, and affection (Aronson, Wilson, & Akert, 2005). Quality of friendship depends on the sex of friends; friendships among women are characterized by more closeness, while men’s friendships are based on the mutual activity (Bank & Han...

Research indicates that friendship contributes to wellbeing in later life in various ways: through the provision of companionship in daily life, support during stressful transitions, sustainment of identity under changing circumstances and adaptation to old age. However not all older people have friends available who fulfil these different functions. In order to promote wellbeing and reduce lon...

: 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...

Orientation toward peers and immersion in friendships are defining features of Yet adolescent friendships are not expressed in a single way. Among the many simple forms friendships can take are best friendships between a pair of adolescents, friendships involving peers other than the best friend, and friendship groups formed of a tight cluster of more than two friends. Some adolescents have wid...

We introduce a new method for detecting communities of arbitrary size in an undirected weighted network. Our approach is based on tracing the path of closest-friendship between nodes in the network using the recently proposed Generalized Erds Numbers. This method does not require the choice of any arbitrary parameters or null models, and does not suffer from a system-size resolution limit. Our ...