Assessing Friendship Motivation During Preadolescence and Early Adolescence

Autor/inn/en	Richard, Jacques F.; Schneider, Barry H.
Titel	Assessing Friendship Motivation During Preadolescence and Early Adolescence
Quelle	In: Journal of Early Adolescence, 25 (2005) 3, S.367-385 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-4316
DOI	10.1177/0272431605276930
Schlagwörter	Early Adolescents; Measures (Individuals); Psychometrics; Motivation; Factor Structure; Construct Validity; Conflict; Gender Differences; Friendship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Messdaten; Psychometry; Psychometrie; psychologische; Motivation (psychologisch); Faktorenstruktur; Konflikt; Geschlechterkonflikt; Freundschaft
Abstract	The authors describe the development and initial psychometric properties of the Friendship Motivation Scale for Children, a new scale designed to assess four dimensions of self-determination (i.e., intrinsic motivation, identified regulation, external regulation, and amotivation) in preadolescents and early adolescents' desire for friendships. The results--obtained with a sample of 490 fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-grade boys and girls--confirmed the factor structure of the scale and revealed adequate internal consistency and test-retest stability. Indicators of construct validity included (a) correlations among the four subscales displaying a simplex pattern, and thus supporting the underlying theoretical model (i.e., self-determination continuum); (b) friends generally reporting similar levels of friendship motivation; and (c) children more self-determined in their friendship motivation reporting more prosocial and less hostile goals in friendship conflict situations and reporting fewer feelings of loneliness. Girls reported greater self-determined friendship motivation than boys, and girls with greater self-determination were preferred by their peers as play-work companions. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10