caa a22 4500 463246217 CHVBK 20180405153326.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20071201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10578-007-0071-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10578-007-0071-8 Close Friendship as Understood by Socially Withdrawn, Anxious Early Adolescents [Elektronische Daten] [Barry Schneider, Nicholas Tessier] The aim of the present study was to explore the social cognitions of socially withdrawn anxious early-adolescents regarding the concept of friendship. From a pool of children referred to an after-school social skills and social contact program, 38 withdrawn/anxious participants were identified and matched with community controls. Interviews regarding their expectations of a best friend revealed that withdrawn/anxious participants tended to focus on their own needs in their concepts of friendship and frequently referred to friendship as a source of help. They also tended to ascribe their best friendship to the circumstantial interactions of classmates or neighbors. Control participants more frequently mentioned the intimacy of a close friendship, which is considered a core defining feature of true friendship. Within the community sample, older participants displayed a more mature understanding of friendship, whereas there were no age effects within the socially anxious group. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2007 Social anxiety nationallicence Social phobia nationallicence Early adolescence nationallicence Interpersonal relationships nationallicence Friendship nationallicence Schneider Barry School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Ottawa, ON, Canada aut Tessier Nicholas School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Ottawa, ON, Canada aut Child Psychiatry and Human Development Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 38/4(2007-12-01), 339-351 0009-398X 38:4<339 2007 38 10578 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-007-0071-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-007-0071-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Schneider Barry School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Ottawa, ON, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tessier Nicholas School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Ottawa, ON, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Child Psychiatry and Human Development Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 38/4(2007-12-01), 339-351 0009-398X 38:4<339 2007 38 10578 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer