Peer relations and close friendships play extremely important roles in youngsters' social and
emotional development. By the early school years, children spend most of their daytime …

A careful observer and listener can find young children exploring peer relations in all sorts of
public spaces from playgrounds to grocery stores. Children barely able to toddle play peek-a …

An early view of the development of adaptive and maladaptive behaviors during childhood
and adolescence suggested that such outcomes stemmed largely from the quality of the …

University of Pittsburgh lbo decades of research have established the importance of peer
relations in the late preschool and middle childhood years (ages 4-12) for children's general …

Children's relationships with peers play a critical role in their psychological adjustment
(Parker & Asher, 1987). Early studies on children's peer relationships focused primarily on …

The main perspective taken in this paper is that peer relationships in childhood provide
more than incidental social experiences and constitute social contexts beyond those in the …

Not that long ago, in the 1970s, keeping up on the research on peer relationships in
childhood was not too difficult. This field of inquiry caught the curiousity of many empirical …

From the time that children begin interacting with other children, they exhibit a wide range of
behaviors. These behaviors vary from child to child, from interaction to interaction, and from …

Examines the developmental significance of peer relations. This article provides an
overview of the beginnings and history of research on child–child relations and outlines …

This review addresses several areas of contemporary research in children's peer
relationships during the elementary and middle school years, with primary foci on children's …