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Similarities Within Adolescent Friendship Pairs: The Relationship Between The Strength And Qualities Of Friendship And The Individuals' Ego Identity Development, James F. Akers
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Current theory and research have suggested that adolescent friends share many similarities which range from strong similarities in sociodemographic variables to weaker correlations for personality characteristics. The goal of this study was to advance the base of knowledge related to similarities between friends by exploring relationships between early adolescent ego identity status and friendship strength, quality, and duration. First, the objective measure of Ego Identity Status was used to test the hypothesis that early adolescents in reciprocally identified friendship pairs are more similar in their ego identity status; no such relationship was found. Second, a measure designed to assess friendship …