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01-02-2014 | Empirical Research

Best Friends’ Discussions of Social Dilemmas

Auteurs: Kristina L. McDonald, Tina Malti, Melanie Killen, Kenneth H. Rubin

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Uitgave 2/2014

Abstract

Peer relationships, particularly friendships, have been theorized to contribute to how children and adolescents think about social and moral issues. The current study examined how young adolescent best friends (191 dyads; 53.4 % female) reason together about multifaceted social dilemmas and how their reasoning is related to friendship quality. Mutually-recognized friendship dyads were videotaped discussing dilemmas entailing moral, social-conventional and prudential/pragmatic issues. Both dyad members completed a self-report measure of friendship quality. Dyadic data analyses guided by the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model indicated that adolescent and friend reports of friendship qualities were related to the forms of reasoning used during discussion. Friends who both reported that they could resolve conflicts in a constructive way were more likely to use moral reasoning than friends who reported that their conflict resolution was poor or disagreed on the quality of their conflict resolution. The findings provide evidence for the important role that friendship interaction may play in adolescents’ social and moral development.

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Dyads with one member being either high on withdrawn behavior (top 33 % on withdrawal and bottom 50 % on aggression), high on aggressive behavior (top 33 % on aggression and bottom 50 % on withdrawal), or low on both behaviors (bottom 50 % on withdrawal and aggression) were specifically targeted for participation in the laboratory portion of the study. Analyses indicated that individuals who came to the university-based laboratory did not differ from those who did not participate in the laboratory portion on indices of peer-nominated aggressive [t (1, 1459) = −.64, p = .52] or withdrawn behavior [t (1, 1459) = −1.59, p = .11] nor did the sample’s aggressive [t (377) = .49, p = .62] or withdrawn behavior [t (377) = 1.34, p = . 18] significantly differ from zero.

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Titel: Best Friends’ Discussions of Social Dilemmas
Auteurs: Kristina L. McDonald
Tina Malti
Melanie Killen
Kenneth H. Rubin
Publicatiedatum: 01-02-2014
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence / Uitgave 2/2014
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-013-9961-1

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