Social support processes in early childhood friendship: A comparative study of ecological congruences in enacted support

摘要: Examined congruences between children's friendships and classroom social ecologies in three distinct settings, poses that such or adaptations are aptly characterized as a process of enacted support; i.e., an interpersonal transaction involving the reduction evasion stress. Data were derived from Corsaro's recent ethnographics friendship peer culture University Preschool (Corsaro, 1985) Head Start center 1994), Rizzo's (1989) ethnography development among first-grade children. Despite vast differences across nature activities appeared consistently linked with specific organizational features their life-worlds this way may constitute significant individual to world. In view, is best seen not static entity, which children appropriate consistent fashion, but general malleable concept, they modify use collaborative fashion address shared psychosocial concerns. Findings related research on link perceived support, interplay relational support processes.