ISBN : 9780190222024
In the late 20th and 21st centuries, the meteoric rise of countless social media platforms and mobile applications have illuminated the profound need friendship and connection have in all of our lives; and yet, very few scholarly volumes have focused on this unique and important bond during this new era of relating to one another. Exploring such topics as friendship and social media, friendship with current and past romantic partners, co-workers, mentors, and even pets, editors Mahzad Hojjat and Anne Moyer lead an expert group of global contributors as they each explore how friendship factors within our lives today. What does it mean to be a friend? What roles do friendships play in our own development? How do we befriend those across the race, ethnicity, gender, and orientation spectrums? What happens when a friendship turns sour? What is the effect of friendship - good and bad - on our mental health? Providing a much needed update to the field of interpersonal relations, The Psychology of Friendship serves as a field guide for readers as they shed traditional definitions of friendship in favor of contemporary contexts and connections.
Foreword: William Rawlins
Introduction: Mahzad Hojjat and Anne Moyer
Part I: Friendship across the Life Span
Chapter 1: Friendship in Childhood and Adolescence
Cynthia A. Erdley and Helen Day
Chapter 2: Friendships in Young and Middle Adulthood: Normative Patterns and Personality Differences
Cornelia Wrzus, Julia Zimmermann, Marcus Mund, and Franz J. Neyer
Chapter 3: Interactive Motifs and Processes in Old Age Friendship
Rebecca G. Adams, Julia Hahmann, and Rosemary Blieszner
Part II: Who Are Our Friends?
Chapter 4: The Hackneyed Notions of Adult Same-Sex and Opposite-Sex Friendships
William Monsour III
Chapter 5: Friendship Across Race, Ethnicity, and Sexual Orientation
Suzanna M. Rose and Michelle M. Hospital
Chapter 6: Friendship and Social Media
Andrew M. Ledbetter
Chapter 7: Friendship and Romance: A Need-Fulfillment Perspective
Laura E. VanderDrift, Chris R. Agnew, and Ezgi Besikci
Chapter 8: Friendship Among Co-workers
Rachel L. Morrison and Helena D. Cooper-Thomas
Chapter 9: Mentors as Friends
Laura Gail Lunsford
Chapter 10: Animals as Friends: Social Psychological Implications of Human-pet Relationships
Allen R. McConnell, E. Paige Lloyd, and Tonya M. Buchanan
Part III: Friendship and Conflict
Chapter 11: The Aftermath: Friendship after Romantic Relationship Termination
Eddie M. Clark, Priscilla Fernandez, Abigail L. Harris, Michelle Hasan, and Katheryn B. Votaw
Chapter 12: Transgression, Forgiveness, and Revenge in Friendship
Mahzad Hojjat, Susan D. Boon, Elizabeth Barlow Lozano
Chapter 13: Competition in Friendship
David R. Hibbard and Gail E. Walton
Part IV: Benefits and Maintenance of Friendships
Chapter 14: Friendship and Health
Julianne Holt-Lunstad
Chapter 15: Friendship and Mental Health Functioning
Alan R. King, Tiffany Russell, and Amy Veith
Chapter 16: Maintaining Long-lasting Friendships
Debra L. Oswald
Chapter 17: Conclusion: Friendship: An Echo, a Hurrah and Other Reflections
Daniel Perlman
