The Company They Keep Friendships in Childhood and Adolescence Bukowski Newcomb

The Company They KeepFriendships in Childhood and Adolescence\nAuthor(s): William M. Bukowski, Andrew F. Newcomb, Willard W. Hartup\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521451987, 978-0521451987\nSynopsis\nFriendship is one of life's most essential and rewarding forms of interaction. It is a feature of every culture and most persons interact with their friends on a daily [url] book provides a forum in which a group of internationally recognized scholars, active in the study of friendship, presents the major conceptual issues, themes, and findings from their research. The authors describe the theoretical and empirical context, and the goals of their own research programmes. They discuss research and the methodological strategies adopted for studying friendship relations. A variety of topics is explored, including cultural variations in children's and adolescents' friendships, the association between.