Sex roles and friendship patterns

Jones, Diane Carlson; Bloys, Nancy; Wood, Marie

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“…These results are generally in line with the results of Reeder's (2003) study, which showed that participants' gender role orientation 'matched' the sex of their friends (i.e., masculine people had more male friends, feminine people had more female friends), though in our study neither women's femininity nor men's masculinity could account for their proportion of CSFs vs. SSFs. Taken together, the accumulating body of evidence suggests that, unlike the findings of Monsour (2002) and Jones et al (1990), psychological androgyny per se isn't special with respect to cross-sex friendships. Instead, people who (claim to) possess traits traditionally associated with the other sex (i.e., high on cross-sex characteristics) tend to have more cross-sex friends.…”

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“…That is, 'feminine' individuals (both men and women) reported having more female than male friends, and 'masculine' individuals (both men and women) reported having more male than female friends. Other researchers, however, have found somewhat different types of relationships between gender role and number of CSFs (Jones, Bloys, & Wood, 1990;Monsour, 1988, as cited in Monsour, 2002. For example, Monsour found that androgynous men, more so than gender-typed individuals and androgynous women, reported having more cross-sex friends, whereas Jones and colleagues found that androgynous individuals tend to have more male than female friends.…”

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Cross-sex Friendships: Who has More?

Lenton

Webber

2006

Sex Roles

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This is the first study to examine the independent, simultaneous, and relative roles of several factorssex, relationship commitment, perceptions of the benefits vs. costs of cross-sex (vs. same-sex) friendships, gender role orientation, and sexism-in the number of cross-sex (vs. same-sex) friendships people have. The latter four constructs were independently found to predict participants' proportions of cross-sex friendships. Furthermore, a model comprised of all five factors provided a very good fit to the data, explaining 35% of the variability in the degree to which the participants possessed cross-sex friendships. Perceptions regarding the general benefits of both sameand cross-sex friendships and cross-gender role orientation continued to explain proportion of cross-sex friendship when the other factors were controlled.

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Cross-sex Friendships: Who has More?

Lenton

Webber

2006

Sex Roles

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“…Many of the details remind one of idiosyncratic, non-generalizable aspects of American friendship. Thus, low self-disclosure, a preference for activities over talking, and compartmentalization of friends have been ascribed more to male than female friendship styles (Bell, 1981;Jones et al, 1990;Mitchell, 1986;Pogrebin, 1987;Rubin, 1985).…”

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Intercultural Friendship: Five case studies of German students in the USA

Gareis¹

2000

Journal of Intercultural Studies

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Foreign students abroad often complain about a lack of friendships with host nationals. Since little research is available on the subject of intercultural friendship, this qualitative study was conducted to explore the friendship experiences of German students on a US campus. In-depth interviews revealed that all informants struggled with cultural differences concerning friendship formation. Most prominently, the different category width of the word`friend' and the extent of public and private personality layers in the two cultures caused confusion and misunderstandings. In addition, some students employed different standards in describing Americans in general and their friends in particular.

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“…Although there is strong evidence for the relationship between communality and friendship satisfaction and maintenance, past research suggests that more masculine individuals may also benefit in friendships. In her extensive review of gender and friendship, concludes that masculinity is important in predicting friendship satisfaction for both sexes (Jones, Bloys, & Wood, 1990). Investigating the fulfillment of friendship needs, Zarbatany et al (2004) conclude that masculinity is particularly important for predicting expectation fulfillment in men's friendship, but not women's.…”

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Satisfying Friendship Maintenance Expectations: The Role of Friendship Standards and Biological Sex

Hall

Larson

Watts

2011

Human Communication Research

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The ideal standards model predicts linear relationship among friendship standards, expectation fulfillment, and relationship satisfaction. Using a diary method, 197 participants reported on expectation fulfillment in interactions with one best, one close, and one casual friend (N = 591) over five days (2,388 interactions). Using multilevel modeling, our study found that hypothesized relationships were moderated by participant sex. For males, ideal standards had a curvilinear relationship with expectation fulfillment, where higher standards were associated with less fulfillment, but both expectation fulfillment and standards directly predicted satisfaction. For females, ideal standards linearly predicted expectation fulfillment, but an interaction between standards and fulfillment predicted satisfaction. Implications for the relationship between ideal standards and sex on friendship maintenance and satisfaction are discussed.

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Sex roles and friendship patterns

Cited by 23 publications

References 39 publications

Cross-sex Friendships: Who has More?

Cross-sex Friendships: Who has More?

Intercultural Friendship: Five case studies of German students in the USA

Satisfying Friendship Maintenance Expectations: The Role of Friendship Standards and Biological Sex

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