High-schoolers' peer orientation priorities: a snapshot.
This short paper reports a set of qualitative research findings which reveal something of the peer orientation priorities of 462 British high-schoolers (14-year olds)-who they hang out with and why. Offering a snapshot of young people's current social and relational priorities, these data point to their over-riding concern for mutuality and "hanging" itself (e.g. "having a laugh"); boys' single-minded preference for sport (and computers); girls' consistent attunement to pleasant, caring interactions; and the relative unimportance of ethnically based affiliation.
Language & Communication Research, Cariff University, Wales, UK. thurlowc@cf.ac.uk
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D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D004739:England; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D012933:Social Identification; D014852:Wales