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- Relations with peers differ from relations with adults:
- parent relationships characterized by:
- unilaterial social verification
- shared housekeeping activities
- peer relations are characterized by:
- reciprocity (mutural social verification and mutual construction)
- shared leisure activities
- With the onset of adolescence, the importance of peers increases.
Why?
- Transitional nature of adolescence
- Autonomy
- Cognitive change
- Sociometric status
- Coie, Dodge, & Coppatelli model
- Cross-situational stability
- Predictors of status
- Predictors are both personal and situational
- importance of knowledge of and compliance with social norms
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