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

Sex Roles

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 59-69

  Cheung, Sum Kwing ^a,b   McBride Chang, Catherine ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cross sex friendship quality; Dating status; Expressivity; Gender differences; Instrumentality

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650948285     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-010-9880-5     Document Type: Article

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