Preadolescence is a critical period, characterised by changes in physical, hormonal,
cognitive, behavioural, and emotional development, as well as by changes in social and …

The association between experienced victimization and students' psychological and social
adjustment depends on the intensity of victimization. We examined how frequency and …

Friendship fundamentally shapes interactions, and predicting other people's affiliations is
crucial for effectively navigating the social world. We investigated how 3-to 11-year-old …

Children's ability to establish peer relationships is an important issue in early childhood
education. Making and maintaining friendships fosters children's social skills development …

Previous studies investigating to what extent students in elementary schools defend their
victimized classmates typically treated defending as an individual characteristic. Defending …

Empirical evidence suggests that people select friends whose extraversion is similar to their
own (selection). However, little is known about whether friends influence extraversion …

Although the physical and mental benefits of friendships are clear, the neurobiological
mechanisms driving mutual social preferences are not well understood. Studies in humans …

The present study uses social network analyses to examine the associations between
children's prosocial behaviour and classroom affiliative relationships (ie, hanging out …

Using data from 2413 Dutch first-year secondary school students (M age= 13.27, SD age=
0.51, 49.0% boys), this study investigated as to what extent students who according to their …

The dynamics of personal relationships remain largely unexplored due to the inherent
difficulties of the longitudinal data collection process. In this paper, we analyse a dataset …