Development of Friendship and Task Values in a New School: Friend Selection for the Arts and Physical Education but Socialization for Academic Subjects.
Friends provide important social contexts for student development. Research has shown that adolescent friends are similar to each other in their interest and values for different school subjects. Yet our current understanding does not extend to knowing whether selection, deselection, or socializatio...
| Published in: | Journal of Youth & Adolescence Vol. 47; no. 9; pp. 1966 - 1978 |
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