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Self-Perceptions of Friendship-Making Ability and Perceptions of Friends’ Deviant Behavior:

Childhood to Adolescence

University of Maryland

Allan Wigfield

University of Maryland

Stability and change from middle childhood to middle adolescence in participants’perceptions of their friendship-making ability and their friends’ deviant behavior were examined. Third-grade, fourth-grade, and sixth-grade children completed questionnaires that assessed those constructs and did so again 5 years later. Participants perceived their friendship-making ability as greater during childhood than during adolescence. Adolescents perceived their friends as more deviant than did children. Each of the two perceptions was not highly stable over 5 years. Aspects of children’s perceived social competence were examined as predictors of adolescents’ perceived friendship-making ability and the deviant behavior of their friends. Children’s perceived friendship-making ability and value, and frequency of friend interaction significantly predicted adolescents’ perceived friendship-making ability, whereas children’s perceived deviant behavior of friends, friendship-making ability (a negative predictor), and popularity with boys and with girls significantly predicted adolescents’ perceived deviant behavior of their friends.

The Journal of Early Adolescence, Vol. 22, No. 2, 143-172 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/0272431602022002002


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