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As hypothesized, close friends were more similar than non-friends in their ratings of legitimate parental authority and the degree of harm and consequences to others for prudential and multifaceted issues.
Early adolescents with higher pubertal development were as likely as their peers to select friends based on similarity in externalizing behavior and especially likely to remain friends with peers who had a similar level of externalizing behavior, and thus break friendship ties with dissimilar friends in this respect.
However, "friends of friends" effects are likely to be confounded with contextual factors.
Findings – Friends were considered the most credible information source, although friends showing greater homophily were more valued than ot...
The results show that respondents can have best and regular friends who differ in their degree of delinquency, and that the association between respondent and peer delinquency does not differ much between friends and best friends.
In addition, we find that fifteen years after the collapse of communism, having friends who were members of the communist party is an inhibitor of upward mobility, while having friends who were entrepreneurs increases people's chances of establishing their own businesses, independently of the number of potential bridges between friends.
Adolescents were as similar to stable friends as to about-to-be friends, suggesting that selection plays a stronger role in similarity than influence.
In the other school, friends' influence was stronger when the friends were relatively popular within the school setting or much more popular than the adolescents themselves.
A close study of William Wirt and his friends, however, reveals that these southern men cherished the warmth and affection of their friends and colleagues.2 E. Anthony Rotundo's recent research on manhood indicates that romantic friendships among northern white men were limited to youth.