Journal article
Personal constructs and friendship formation
Journal of personality and social psychology, Vol.23(1), pp.40-45
07/1972
DOI: 10.1037/h0032872
PMID: 4557687
Abstract
Examined the relevance of personal construct theory to the understanding of the influence of personality on friendship formation. Repertory grids (repgrids) were given on 2 occasions to 16 frequently interacting female university freshmen. On the 1st occasion, Ss were newly acquainted; at the 2nd test, nearly 6 mo. later, friendship groups were identified by sociometric tests. Pairs of friends were found to have more similar personal constructs than nominal pairs of group members, not only on the 2nd repgrid but also on the 1st repgrid, before these friendships had occasion to form. It is hypothesized that after the initial stages of acquaintance, the relationship between an individual's personal constructs and his friendships is 1 of mutual influence. (32 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Personal constructs and friendship formation
- Creators
- Steven W Duck - U. Glasgow, ScotlandChristopher Spencer
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of personality and social psychology, Vol.23(1), pp.40-45
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- DOI
- 10.1037/h0032872
- PMID
- 4557687
- ISSN
- 0022-3514
- eISSN
- 1939-1315
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/1972
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Rhetoric
- Record Identifier
- 9984397193802771
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