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friendship capacity, developmental contributors
to, 250
Friendship Circle Favorability, 254
Friendship Matters: Communication, Dialectics, and
the Life Course (Rawlins), 68, 71
friendship networks
effect of parenthood on, 29
types of networks, 23– 24
friendship patterns, using interactive motifs and
processes to research, 39– 41, 40f
Friendship Qualities Scale, 6
Friendship Quality Questionnaire, 6
friendships, maintaining long- lasting
critical nature of maintenance, 267– 268, 280
and dyadic nature of friendships, 275– 276
friendship maintenance behaviors, 268– 271
future research on, 280
and relationship satisfaction, 271– 275
theoretical frameworks for understanding,
276– 280
and use of technology, 273– 275
friendships, number of
changes in adulthood, 27– 29, 28f
effect of personality traits, 25
friendships, quality of
changes in young and middle adulthood, 29– 30
effect of personality traits, 25– 26
“friends with benefits,” academic literature on, 69, 294
Fuhrman, R . W., 204
functional social support
and coronary heart disease, 240
defined, 234
and health, 237
Furman, W.
friendship in adolescence, 4, 5
Network of Relationships Inventory, 6
Gable, S. L., 296
Galupo, M. P., 85
Gardner, W. L., 46
Garrity, C. B., 190
Gastic, B., 85
Gay Straight Alliances (GSAs), 82
gender
impact on workplace friendships, 131– 133
and rules of friendship, 203– 204
and transgressions in friendship, 202– 206
gender, and friendships among adults
academic books on, 67– 69
defining “opposite- sex” and “same- sex”
friendships, 65
heteronormative bias in research, 69
“opposite- sex” and “same- sex” friendships,
notions of, 62– 63, 64, 65– 66, 71– 72
same- sex and other- sex friendships, similarities
and differences in, 66– 67, 203– 204
shifts in gender paradigm, 64– 65
theoretical perspectives on, 69– 71
transsexuals and “opposite- sex” friendships,
59– 60, 65, 71– 72
gender differences
anxiety and friendship experiences, 9
behaviors and activities with friends, 49,
131– 132
in competitiveness, 220
and co- rumination, 13– 14
cross- race friendships, 83
depression, and friendship experiences, 8
depression contagion, 13
developing new friendships in old age, 42
and deviancy training, 12
and effect of agreeableness in friendship, 25
and effect of neuroticism on friendship, 26
and emotional support and intimacy, 5
and expressions of cognitive processes, 45
in friendship maintenance behavior, 271
in revenge and forgiveness, 204
and mentoring opportunities, 151
relatives as friends, 44
See also gender, and friendships among adults
gender norms, and cross- sexual orientation
friendships, 84
gender socialization, and competition in
friendship, 221– 222, 225– 226
Gibran, Kahlil, 66
Giletta, M., 13
Gillespie, B. J., 49
Gilligan, C., 42
Glass, T., 291
Glee television program, 87
Gnagy, E. M., 14
Gold, J. A.
hypercompetitiveness, 219– 220
operational definitions of friendship, 6
Goldfarb Fear of Fat Scale, 258
goodwill, and friendship after romantic
relationship, 178
Graham, E. E., 185
Grandin, T., 167– 168
Granovetter, M. S., 94– 95
Gray, H. M. and K., 160
Greif, G. L., 44
Greiner, A. R ., 14
Griggs, M. S., 14
Guillory, J. E., 93Ha, J.- H., 50
Hackathorn, J., 179, 181
Hahmann, Julia
friendship in old age, xx, 39– 55
friendship in widowhood, 50
Hall, A., 46