Correlates of cross-sex friendship satisfaction in Hong Kong adolescents

Cheung, Sum Kwing; McBride‐Chang, Catherine

doi:10.1177/0165025407073532

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“…The data for this article came from a study on adolescent friendship (Cheung and McBride-Chang 2007). Whereas the previous study focused on adolescent friendship satisfaction, defined as a global perception and feeling toward the quality of friendships formed (Jones 1991), the present study examined the quality of friendship more closely by considering different components of friendship.…”

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Relations of Gender, Gender-Related Personality Characteristics, and Dating Status to Adolescents’ Cross-Sex Friendship Quality

Cheung

McBride‐Chang

2010

Sex Roles

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This study examined how gender, instrumentality, expressivity and dating status were associated with adolescents' perceived cross-sex friendship quality. Two hundred sixty-two Hong Kong Chinese heterosexual teenagers (117 males, 145 females) aged 14 to 18 rated the levels of companionship, closeness, help, security and conflict in their best cross-sex friendships. Results showed that girls perceived more help but also more conflicts. Instrumentality and expressivity were consistent correlates of closeness and security, but they predicted other features differently in the two genders. Daters reported higher levels of companionship, closeness and help. Dating girls, in particular, perceived these friendships as involving the highest levels of security. These results provide some support for social role theory and interdependency across adolescents' social relationships.

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Relations of Gender, Gender-Related Personality Characteristics, and Dating Status to Adolescents’ Cross-Sex Friendship Quality

Cheung

McBride‐Chang

2010

Sex Roles

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“…For example, two studies controlling for socioeconomic background, parental education and/or religion found that, in early to middle adulthood, single-sex school graduates reported less satisfactory marriage outcomes (e.g., less happy marriage, higher rate of divorce) than coeducational school graduates [11,42]. One study found that 10 th grade students from single-sex schools reported lower satisfaction with other-gender friends than students from coeducational schools [43].…”

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Students from single-sex schools are more gender-salient and more anxious in mixed-gender situations: Results from high school and college samples

Wong

Shi²,

Chen³

2018

PLoS ONE

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Gender segregation exists in all walks of life. One of the most common forms of institutionalized gender segregation is perhaps single-sex schooling. Because schooling experience has important influence on students’ psychosocial development, interest in gender-segregated education has been reviving over the globe. Skeptics of single-sex schooling have suggested that such schooling may increase students’ gender salience (awareness of gender in categorizations), reduce opportunities for mixed-gender interactions, and increase mixed-gender anxiety, but little evidence has been found. It is critical to explore how single-sex schooling is associated with these psychosocial outcomes in adolescents and young adults because they are in the developmental stage when the desire and need to establish mixed-gender relationships increase. We report two systematic studies on gender salience, mixed-gender friendships, and mixed-gender anxiety on 2059 high school students and 456 college students from single-sex or coeducational schools. Even with demographic background controlled, results suggested higher gender salience in single-sex school students in the high school sample, and greater mixed-gender anxiety and fewer mixed-gender friendships in these students in both samples. These differences were not moderated by student gender and were similar in first-year versus senior college students. Moreover, mixed-gender friendships, though not gender salience, appeared to engage in a possibly bi-directional mediation relationship with mixed-gender anxiety that is consistent with a vicious cycle of escalating anxiety and lack of mixed-gender interaction among single-sex school students. These findings help fill the knowledge gap about the correlates of gender-segregated schooling and shed light on the precursors of later social and achievement differences between single-sex and coeducational school students.

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“…If these partner preferences are viewed in a factorial manner, where both the biological sex of the actor and the partner are taken into account, some differences between men and women appear more related to the partner's biological sex than the actor's biological sex. For instance, men report more intimacy and emotional support from cross‐sex friends than women do, and women report more intimacy and emotional support from same‐sex friends than men do (Cheung & McBride‐Chang, ; Kuttler & La Greca, ). It is easy to misinterpret this as an actor‐based gender effect, but in reality it is partner based.…”

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“…Although sexual attraction was not a variable of interest in this study, this pattern of findings in studies with heterosexuals helps inform the likely pattern in research with LG participants. -Chang, 2007;Kuttler & La Greca, 2004). It is easy to misinterpret this as an actor-based gender effect, but in reality it is partner based.…”

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Partner preferences across sexual orientations and biological sex

Willis

2013

Personal Relationships

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This study examined how partner preferences differ across interpersonal contexts (romantic attachment and relationship expectations) based on sexuality and biological sex. Participants completed measures of attachment and behavioral expectations for their romantic partners, cross‐sex friends, and same‐sex friends. The attachment anxiety results revealed an effect of sexuality: Single heterosexuals scored higher for their cross‐sex friends than same‐sex friends, single lesbian/gay individuals scored higher for same‐sex friends than cross‐sex friends, and bisexuals' attachment anxiety was equal regardless of friends' biological sex. The behavioral expectation results revealed an effect of biological sex indicating that, regardless of sexuality, women are preferred over men for emotional/social needs. Finally, an interaction revealed that lesbians have higher expectations for their girlfriends/wives than straight men have for theirs.

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Correlates of cross-sex friendship satisfaction in Hong Kong adolescents

Cited by 11 publications

References 38 publications

Relations of Gender, Gender-Related Personality Characteristics, and Dating Status to Adolescents’ Cross-Sex Friendship Quality

Relations of Gender, Gender-Related Personality Characteristics, and Dating Status to Adolescents’ Cross-Sex Friendship Quality

Students from single-sex schools are more gender-salient and more anxious in mixed-gender situations: Results from high school and college samples

Partner preferences across sexual orientations and biological sex

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