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Having Friends, Making Friends, and Keeping Friends: Relationships as Educational Contexts. ERIC Digest.
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Hartup, Willard W. – 1992
Peer relations contribute substantially to both social and cognitive development. The essentials of friendship are reciprocity and commitment between individuals who see themselves more or less as equals. Affiliation and common interests, the main themes in friendship relations, are first understood in early childhood. Friends serve as emotional…
Descriptors: Child Psychology, Children, Cognitive Development, Developmental Psychology