Relations of Gender, Gender-Related Personality Characteristics, and Dating Status to Adolescents’ Cross-Sex Friendship Quality

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Sum Kwing Cheung
Catherine McBride-Chang
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[1] The Chinese University of Hong Kong,Department of Psychology
[2] The Hong Kong Baptist University,Early Childhood and Elementary Education Division, School of Continuing Education
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Sex Roles | 2011年 / 64卷
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Cross-sex friendship quality; Instrumentality; Expressivity; Dating status; Gender differences;
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This study examined how gender, instrumentality, expressivity and dating status were associated with adolescents’ perceived cross-sex friendship quality. Two hundred sixty-two Hong Kong Chinese heterosexual teenagers (117 males, 145 females) aged 14 to 18 rated the levels of companionship, closeness, help, security and conflict in their best cross-sex friendships. Results showed that girls perceived more help but also more conflicts. Instrumentality and expressivity were consistent correlates of closeness and security, but they predicted other features differently in the two genders. Daters reported higher levels of companionship, closeness and help. Dating girls, in particular, perceived these friendships as involving the highest levels of security. These results provide some support for social role theory and interdependency across adolescents’ social relationships.
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