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Stability and Change in Peer Relationships during the Transition to Middle-Level School.

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Hardy, Cindy L.; Bukowski, William M.; Sippola Lorrie K. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2002

Assessed Canadian young adolescents' peer relationships as students moved from grade 6 in small elementary schools to middle-level schools offering grades 7 to 12. Found that girls experienced greater instability in reciprocated friendships than boys. Found that girls, more so than boys, lost old friendships and formed new friendships with…

Descriptors: Educational Environment, Foreign Countries, Friendship, Institutional Characteristics