title: Daily School Context of Adolescents' Single Best Friendship and Adjustment.
abstract: Research on adolescent best friendships typically focuses on school-based friendships, ignoring important differences between classroom-based and out-of-school friendships. With data from 156 ninth-grade students, many of whom named more than 1 best friend across the 14-day period, the authors examined associations between the daily school context of one's best friendship and adjustment. Benefits of in-grade best friendships were found in academic engagement when a composite was assessed across the 2-week period. Daily findings were more complex and were different between weekends and school days. Out-of-grade best friends were named more frequently on weekends, and on weekend days in which they named an out-of-school best friend participants spent more time with that friend but felt like less of a good student. Implications for our understanding of friendship context and for the measurement of friendship itself are discussed.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology , Willamette University , Salem , OR , USA.
authors.forename: Melissa R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Witkow
authors.affiliation: b Department of Psychology , Portland State University , Portland , OR , USA.
authors.forename: Nicolette P
authors.initials: NP
authors.lastname: Rickert
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology , Willamette University , Salem , OR , USA.
authors.forename: Laura E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Cullen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D033062:Friends / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D012574:Schools; D012649:Self Concept; D012917:Social Adjustment; D013997:Time Factors
keywords: Adolescence; best friendship; daily report; peer relationships; school context