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Children's Friendship Expectations: A Cognitive-Developmental Study
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BIGELOW, BRIAN J. Children's Friendship Expectations: A Cognitive-developmental Study. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1977, 48, 246-253. The sequential-invariance hypothesis was tested for friendshipexpectation (FE) development using 480 children aged 6-14 years, from primary 2-7 and secondary 1-2 forms of the Dundee, Scotland, school system. Statistical comparisons were made within and between this and an age-equivalent Anglo-Canadian sample. FE essays of subjects were content analyzed along 21 FE dimensions. 11 FE dimensions increasing significantly over age were individually compared between the 2 samples for developmental order of onset. The sequential-invariance hypothesis received statistical support, and cluster analysis on 9 FE dimensions in the developmental sequence suggested 3 FE stages: the situational, contractual, and internal-psychological, the contractual stage being the least reliable.
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- Authors
- Bigelow, B. J.
- Venue
- Child Development
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1977-03-01
- Volume
- 48
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 246-246
- ISSN
- 0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2081243982
- Cited by
- 305
- References
- 17
- FWCI
- 6.15
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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