The Compass of Friendship: Narratives, Identities, and Dialogues

Rawlins, William K.

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“…They depicted themselves as having an “objective” view of the problems in their friend’s relationship and suggested they had a responsibility to share their concerns and to encourage their friend to take action. Additionally, male participants positioned themselves as able to offer insights into the behavior of other men, which is consistent with research on young people’s expectations of cross-gender friendships (Monsour, 2016; Rawlins, 2009).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 76%

“…To a large extent, the difficulties experienced by many participants in deciding what role to play reflect some of the tensions inherent in everyday friendship interactions, such as whether one should simply respect a friend’s decisions or whether one has a responsibility to be honest and offer potentially useful feedback (Rawlins, 2009). However, in participants’ narratives, these tensions were exacerbated by their anxieties about their responsibilities for their friend’s safety.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Across cultures, friendships are idealized relationships (Rawlins, 2009). They provide intimacy, belonging, and social support (Hojjat et al, 2016) and have been found to play a key role in promoting mental well-being (King et al, 2016) and physical health (Holt-Lunstad, 2016).…”

Section: The Ethics and Expectations Of Friendshipmentioning

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“…At the same time, friendships lack the formality of marital, workplace, or kinship relationships and are grounded in unwritten codes of conduct (Rawlins, 2009). One of these social codes commonly associated with friendship is egalitarianism.…”

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“Walking on Eggshells:” A Qualitative Study of How Friends of Young Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence Perceive Their Role

McKenzie

Hegarty

Palmer

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J Interpers Violence

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Young women who experience intimate partner violence (IPV) are most likely to turn to their friends for help. Although friends can play a critical role in providing support, there is little research that examines friends’ experiences. In this qualitative study, we explored how friends of young women experiencing IPV perceived their role in responding to IPV in the context of friendship. We held in-depth interviews with 15 friends of young women who had experienced IPV and used reflexive thematic analysis to develop key themes from the data. We developed two overarching themes that reflected participants’ perceptions of the roles they had played or considered as a friend in responding to IPV: “taking action” (which included “providing an outsider’s view,” “being an advisor or coach,” “being a protector,” and “taking a stand”); and “being there” (which included “being a listener,” “being a companion” and “being an ally”). Their perceptions were shaped by friendship expectations, as well as by understandings of IPV. However, deciding what role to play in supporting their friend was constructed as challenging due to conflicting expectations that arose in the context of friendship. It involved balancing a perceived responsibility to do what they thought was best for their friend’s well-being, a need to promote honesty and mutuality in the friendship, along with a competing obligation to respect their friend’s choices, maintain her trust and ensure equality in the friendship. Being friends with the abuser as well as with the victim created additional complexities. Based on our findings, we identify key areas to address in developing interventions to assist friends to respond to young women experiencing IPV. These could guide friends on how to play an effective support role while also maintaining the friendship and managing the significant emotional impacts of providing help.

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“Walking on Eggshells:” A Qualitative Study of How Friends of Young Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence Perceive Their Role

McKenzie

Hegarty

Palmer

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“…In this chapter, however, we emphasize work done in the past 40 years, especially work done in the 21st century. As other books and reviews have testified, research on friendship has flourished, especially in the past 25 years (e.g., Adams & Allan, 1998;Bagwell & Schmidt, 2011;Blieszner & Adams, 1992;Fehr, 1996;Hartup & Stevens, 1997;Rawlins, 2009;Spencer & Pahl, 2006;Ueno & Adams, 2006). As a preview, the chapter is divided into several main sections:…”

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Friendship.

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Stevens²,

Carcedo³

2015

APA Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology, Volume 3: Interpersonal Relations.

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Dialectical Tensions in Relationships

Baxter

Scharp

2015

The International Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Communication

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Dialectical tensions, also known as contradictions or discursive struggles, are oppositions that affect or constitute relating. Two broad approaches can be identified in the dialectical research; the first approach conceives of dialectical tensions as conditions, needs, or goals that are situated outside of communication and that are managed through communication, whereas the second approach envisions dialectical tensions as competing systems of meaning constituted in communication and the process through which meanings are made.

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The Compass of Friendship: Narratives, Identities, and Dialogues

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