Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA.
Child Dev. 2012 Jan-Feb;83(1):104-19. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01685.x. Epub 2011 Nov 22.
In this study, the prevailing view that girls are pervasively more skilled in their friendships than boys was challenged by examining whether girls respond more negatively than boys when a friend violates core friendship expectations. Fourth- and fifth-grade children (n = 267) responded to vignettes depicting transgressions involving a friend's betrayal, unreliability, or failure to provide support or help. Results indicated that girls were more troubled by the transgressions, more strongly endorsed various types of negative relationship interpretations of the friend's actions, and reported more anger and sadness than did boys. Girls also endorsed revenge goals and aggressive strategies just as much as boys. These findings lead to a more complex view of boys' and girls' friendship competencies.
在这项研究中，通过考察当朋友违反核心友谊期望时，女孩的反应是否比男孩更负面，挑战了普遍认为女孩在友谊中比男孩更有优势的观点。本研究调查了四年级和五年级的儿童（n=267）对描述朋友背叛、不可靠或未能提供支持或帮助的违规行为的情景故事的反应。结果表明，与男孩相比，女孩对这些违规行为感到更加困扰，更强烈地认同朋友行为的各种负面关系解释，并且比男孩报告更多的愤怒和悲伤。女孩也像男孩一样支持复仇目标和攻击策略。这些发现使得对男孩和女孩的友谊能力有了更复杂的看法。
