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Recchia, Holly; Wainryb, Cecilia; Pasupathi, Monisha – Child Development, 2013
This study investigated differences in children's and adolescents' experiences of harming their siblings and friends. Participants ("N" = 101; 7-, 11-, and 16-year-olds) provided accounts of events when they hurt a younger sibling and a friend. Harm against friends was described as unusual, unforeseeable, and circumstantial. By contrast,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Sibling Relationship, Friendship
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MacEvoy, Julie Paquette; Asher, Steven R. – Child Development, 2012
In this study, the prevailing view that girls are pervasively more skilled in their friendships than boys was challenged by examining whether girls respond more negatively than boys when a friend violates core friendship expectations. Fourth- and fifth-grade children (n = 267) responded to vignettes depicting transgressions involving a friend's…
Descriptors: Friendship, Grade 5, Grade 4, Elementary School Students