The Role of Cross-Racial/Ethnic Friendships in Social Adjustment

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1177-1183

  Kawabata, Yoshito ^a   Crick, Nicki R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

friendship; race ethnicity; social adjustment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FRIEND; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOMETRIC STATUS;

CHILD; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HUMANS; LEADERSHIP; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PREJUDICE; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIOMETRIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 47249083513     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.44.4.1177     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Aboud F.E., and Levy S.R. Interventions to reduce prejudice and discrimination in children and adolescence. In: Oskamp S. (Ed). Reducing prejudice and discrimination (2000), Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ 269-294
2. Aboud F.E., and Mendelson M.J. Determinants of friendship selection and quality: Developmental perspectives. In: Bukowski W.M., and Newcomb A.F. (Eds). The company they keep: Friendship in childhood and adolescence. Cambridge studies in social and emotional development (1998), Cambridge University Press, New York 87-112
3. Aboud F.E., Mendelson M.J., and Purdy K.T. Cross-race peer relations and friendship quality. International Journal of Behavioral Development 27 (2003) 165-173
4. Allport G.W. The nature of prejudice (1954), Addison-Wesley, Cambridge, MA
5. Asher S.R., Oden S.L., and Gottman J.M. Children's friendships in school settings. In: Lilian G.K. (Ed). Current topics in early childhood education: Vol 1 (1977), Ablex Publication, Norwood, NJ
6. Berndt T.J. Friendship quality and social development. Current Directions in Psychological Science 11 (2002) 7-10
7. Boykin A.W., and Toms F.D. Black child socialization: A conceptual framework. In: McAdoo H.P., and McAdoo J.J. (Eds). Black children: Social, educational, and parental environments (1985), Sage, Newbury Park, CA 33-51
8. Crick N.R. The role of overt aggression, relational aggression, and prosocial behavior in the prediction of children's future social adjustment. Child Development 67 (1996) 2317-2327
9. Crick N.R., and Grotpeter J.K. Relational aggression, gender, and social-psychological adjustment. Child Development 66 (1995) 710-722
10. Dovido J.F., Gaertner S.L., and Kawakami K. Intergroup context: The past, present, and the future. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations 6 (2005) 5-21
11. DuBois D.L., and Hirsch B.J. School and neighborhood friendship patterns of Blacks and Whites in early adolescence. Child Development 61 (1990) 524-536
12. Foster S.L., Martinez Jr. C.R., and Kulberg A.M. Race, ethnicity, and children's peer relations. In: Ollendick T.H., and Prinz R.J. (Eds). Advances in clinical child psychology 18 (1996), Plenum Press, New York 133-172
13. Fuligni A.J., and Yoshikawa H. Socioeconomic resources, parenting, poverty, and child development among immigrant families. In: Bornstein M.H., and Bradley R.H. (Eds). Socioeconomic status, parenting, and child development (2003), Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ 107-124
14. Garcia M.H. An anthropological approach to multicultural diversity training. Journal of Applied Behavior Science 31 (1995) 490-504
15. Garcia Coll C., and Garrido M. Minorities in the United States: Sociocultural context for mental health and developmental psychopathology. In: Sameroff A.J., and Lewis M. (Eds). Handbook of developmental psychopathology. 2nd ed. (2000), Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York 177-195
16. Garcia Coll C.T., Meyer E.C., and Brillon L. Ethnic and minority parenting. In: Bornstein M.H. (Ed). Handbook of parenting: Vol. 2. Biology and ecology of parenting (1995), Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ 189-209
17. Graham J.A., and Cohen R. Race and sex as factors in children's sociometric ratings and friendship choices. Social Development 6 (1997) 355-372
18. Graham J.A., Cohen R., Zbikowski S.M., and Secrist M.E. A longitudinal investigation of race and sex as factors in children's classroom friendship choices. Child Study Journal 28 (1998) 245-266
19. Grotpeter J.K., and Crick N.R. Relational aggression, overt aggression, and friendship. Child Development 67 (1996) 2328-2338
20. Halgunseth L.C., Ispa J.M., and Rudy D. Parental control in Latino families: An integrated review of the literature. Child Development 77 (2006) 1282-1297
21. Hallinan M.T., and Smith S.S. The effects of classroom racial composition on students' interracial friendliness. Social Psychology Quarterly 48 (1985) 3-16
22. Hallinan M.T., and Williams R.A. Interracial friendship choices in secondary schools. American Sociological Review 54 (1989) 67-78
23. Hartup W.W. Handbook of social development: A lifespan perspective (1991), Plenum Press, New York
24. Hartup W.W., and Stevens N. Friendships and adaptation in the life course. Psychological Bulletin 121 (1997) 355-370
25. Hunter L., and Elias M.J. Interracial friendships, multicultural sensitivity, and social competence: How are they related?. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology 20 (2000) 551-573
26. Johnson D.W., and Johnson R.T. The three Cs of reducing prejudice and discrimination. In: Oskamp S. (Ed). Reducing prejudice and discrimination: The Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology (2000), Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ 93-114
27. Kao G., and Joyner K. Do race and ethnicity matter among friends? Activities among interracial, interethnic, and intraethnic adolescent friends. Sociological Quarterly 45 (2004) 557-573
28. Kawabata, K., & Crick, N. R. (2008). The antecedents of cross-racial/ethnic friendships in middle childhood. Manuscript in preparation.
29. Khmelkov V.T., and Hallinan M.T. Organizational effects on race relations in schools. Journal of Social Issues 55 (1999) 627-645
30. Lease A.M., and Blake J.J. A comparison of majority-race children with and without a minority-race friend. Social Development 14 (2005) 20-41
31. Louch H. Personal network integration: Transitivity and homophily in strong-tie relations. Social Network 22 (2000) 45-64
32. Martin G. Influence of acculturation on familialism and self-identification among Hispanics. In: Bernal M.E., and Knight G.P. (Eds). Ethnic identity: Formation and transmission among Hispanics and other minorities (1993), State University of New York Press, New York 181-196
33. McLoyd V.C. Changing demographics in the American population: Implications for research on minority children and adolescents. In: McLoyd V.C., and Steinberg L. (Eds). Studying minority adolescents: Conceptual, methodological, and theoretical issues (1998), Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ 3-28
34. McLoyd V.C., and Ceballo R. Conceptualizing and assessing economic context: Issues in the study of race and child development. In: McLoyd V.C., and Steinberg L. (Eds). Studying minority adolescents: Conceptual, methodological, and theoretical issues (1998), Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ 251-278
35. McPherson M., Smith-Lovin L., and Cook J.M. Birds of a feather: Homophily in social networks. Annual Review of Sociology 27 (2001) 415-444
36. Nesdale D., Maass A., Durkin K., and Griffiths J. Group norms, threat, and children's racial prejudice. Child Development 76 (2005) 652-663
37. Orfield G. Dismantling desegregation: The quiet reversal of Brown v. Board of Education (1996), New York Press, New York
38. Oskamp S. Multiple paths to reducing prejudice and discrimination. In: Oskamp S. (Ed). Reducing prejudice and discrimination: The Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology (2000), Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ 1-22
39. Parker J.G., and Asher S.R. Friendship and friendship quality in middle childhood: Links with peer group acceptance and feelings of loneliness and social dissatisfaction. Developmental Psychology 29 (1993) 611-621
40. Pettigrew T.F. Intergroup contact theory. Annual Review of Psychology 49 (1998) 65-85
41. Pettigrew T.F., and Tropp L.R. Does intergroup contact reduce prejudice? Recent meta-analytic findings. In: Oskamp S. (Ed). Reducing prejudice and discrimination: The Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology (2000), Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ 93-114
42. Reis H.T., and Collins W.A. Relationships, human behavior, and psychological science. Current Directions in Psychological Science 13 (2004) 233-237
43. Sagar H.A., Schofield J.W., and Snyder H.N. Race and gender barriers: Preadolescent peer behavior in academic classrooms. Child Development 54 (1983) 1032-1040
44. Schofield J.W., and Eurich-Fulcer R. When and how school desegregation improves intergroup relations. In: Brewer M.B., and Hewstone M. (Eds). Applied social psychology (2004), Blackwell, Malden, MA 186-205
45. Shrum W., Cheek N.H., and Hunter S.M. Friendship in school: Gender and racial homophily. Sociology of Education 61 (1988) 227-239
46. Sullivan H.S. The interpersonal theory of psychiatry (1953), Norton, New York