Author: Bukowski, William M.; Newcomb, Andrew F.; & Hartup, Willard W.; editors:
Title: The Company They Keep: Friendship in Childhood and Adolescence
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (1996). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, x,426 pp, Series: Cambridge Studies in Social and Emotional Development. Some spotting / small stains to binding & page-edges. Good. ¶ Contains 16 papers. Includes: Friendships and their significance in childhood and adolescence: introduction and comment; The Nature of Friendship, its Measurement and Development: 2. Amicitia, drujba, shin-yu, philia, freund, friendship: on the cultural diversity of a human relationship; The measurement of friendship perceptions: conceptual and methodological issues; The earliest friendships; Determinants of friendship selection and quality: developmental perspectives; Interdependence of Relationship Systems: Parents' interpersonal relationships and children's friendships; Individual differences in friendship quality: links to child-mother attachment; Need fulfilment, interpersonal competence, and the developmental contexts of early adolescent friendship; Closeness and conflict in adolescent peer relationships: interdependence with friends and romantic partners; Friendship and its Relations to Other Aspects of Development: Cooperation, close relationships, and cognitive development ; Friendship and morality: (how) are they related?; Friendships of maltreated children and adolescents: contexts for expressing and modifying relationship history; Friendship and Adaption: The developmental significance of children's friendship relations; Linkages between friendship and adjustment during early school transitions; Exploring the effects of friendship quality on social development; Distinguishing friendship from acceptance: implications for intervention and assessment.

Keywords: Interpersonal Relationships, Friendship, Emotional, Development, Childhood, Child Psychology, Adolescence, Adolescent,