Flocking Together and Thinking Apart: Gendered Friendships and Decision-Making in Adolescence

Autor/inn/en	Flouri, Eirini; Papachristou, Efstathios; Joshi, Heather
Titel	Flocking Together and Thinking Apart: Gendered Friendships and Decision-Making in Adolescence
Quelle	In: European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 19 (2022) 3, S.343-364 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1740-5629
DOI	10.1080/17405629.2021.1903865
Schlagwörter	Gender Differences; Friendship; Decision Making; Group Membership; Early Adolescents; Cognitive Style; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geschlechterkonflikt; Freundschaft; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Gruppenzugehörigkeit; Cognitive styles; Kognitiver Stil; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	This study explored if adolescents' style of decision-making is related to the sex composition of their friendship groups. Using data on 13,413 members of the Millennium Cohort Study at ages 11 and 14 years, we explored reciprocal associations between decision-making, measured with the Cambridge Gambling Task, and own-sex and other- or mixed-sex companionship. Cross-lagged models showed that girls whose friends at 11 were mainly girls showed better quality of decision-making, more risk adjustment, shorter deliberation time and less delay aversion at age 14, compared to girls in mixed-sex or other-sex friendship groups at 11. For boys, having predominantly male friends was associated only with more risk adjustment. Conversely, decision-making style at age 11 did little to predict keeping own-sex company at age 14. It appears that same-sex friendships may help develop better decision-making in adolescence, but only for girls. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01