Relationships with parents and friends: cross-sectional and retrospective accounts.
We investigated Turkish high school and university students' perceptions of their relationships with their parents and friends in two studies using cross-sectional and retrospective methods. Subjects in both studies rated 31 items describing their relationships with one significant other from two perspectives: their own point of view and that of their relationship partner (mother, father, or best same-sex friend). Results indicated age-related trends for perceptions of development of relationships with significant others. Retrospective reports revealed greater degrees of perceived equity of self-favoring inequity than did cross-sectional reports.
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Department of Psychology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
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D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010379:Peer Group; D010553:Personality Development; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014421:Turkey