Back to the Dyad: Future Directions for Friendship Research

IF 1.2 4区心理学 Q4 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly-Journal of Developmental Psychology Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI:10.1353/mpq.2021.0022

Catherine L. Bagwell, J. Bowker, S. Asher

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Abstract

Abstract:Friendship is a developmentally significant relationship in childhood and adolescence that contributes to socioemotional, social-cognitive, and psychological development and well-being. It is a dyadic relationship based on mutual affection, with both friends thinking of each other as friends. Despite this definitional understanding of the dyadic nature of friendship, it is common to study friendships individually, for example, by investigating how one child’s perception of the quality of a friendship is associated with that child’s psychological functioning. Although this research approach yields important information about friendships and their effects on youth, we suggest that putting the dyad back into friendship research, by conceptualizing the dyad as the unit of analysis or by including characteristics or perceptions of both members of the dyad in analyses, will generate valuable new knowledge about friendships and their developmental significance. We focus on three key areas of study about children’s and adolescents’ friendships that would benefit from a dyadic perspective: (a) features and processes in friendships, (b) temporal and contextual approaches to the study of friendship, and (c) friendship tasks and social-cognitive perspectives on intervention.

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回到Dyad：友谊研究的未来方向

摘要:友谊是儿童和青少年时期具有重要发展意义的关系，有助于社会情感、社会认知和心理的发展和健康。这是一种基于相互感情的二元关系，朋友双方都把对方当作朋友。尽管对友谊的二元性质有这样的定义理解，但单独研究友谊是很常见的，例如，通过调查一个孩子对友谊质量的感知如何与该孩子的心理功能相关联。尽管这种研究方法产生了关于友谊及其对青少年影响的重要信息，但我们建议，通过将两分体概念化为分析单位，或通过将两分体中两个成员的特征或看法纳入分析，将把两分体放回友谊研究中，将产生有关友谊及其发展意义的宝贵新知识。我们将重点关注儿童和青少年友谊研究的三个关键领域，这些领域将受益于二元视角:(a)友谊的特征和过程，(b)友谊研究的时间和情境方法，以及(c)友谊任务和干预的社会认知视角。

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