Chen, Xinyin, French, Doran C., & Schneider, Barry H. . Peer Relationships in Cultural Context

Adolescence, Winter, 2007

CHEN, Xinyin, FRENCH, Doran C., & SCHNEIDER, Barry H. (Eds.). Peer Relationships in Cultural Context. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 521pp. $90.00 (h).

Although research in the field of children's peer relationships has burgeoned in recent years, cultural issues have often been overlooked. This comprehensive volume taps such issues as the impact of social circumstances and cultural values on peer relationships, culturally prescribed socialization patterns and processes, emotional experience and regulation in peer interactions, children's social behaviors in peer interactions, cultural aspects of friendships, and peer influences on social and school adjustment in cultural context. The authors incorporate into their discussions findings from research using multiple methodologies, including qualitative (e.g., interviewing, ethnographic and observational) and quantitative (e.g., large scale surveys, standardized questionnaires) approaches, based on a wide range of ages of children in cultures from East to West and from South to North (Asia, South America, the Mideast, Southern Europe, and U.S. ethnic groups).