It just occured to me.. is there such a thing as Friendship Research? There’s a lot of research on eros, sexuality and romance, and on family relations, storge, and on general altruism, agape, but what about plain old Friendship/Phileo?
I don’t see how papers in the second journal with titles like “How partners’ temptation leads to their heightened commitment: The interpersonal regulation of infidelity threats”, “Passion for life: Self-expansion and passionate love across the life span”, “Young adult romantic relationships in Mainland China: Perceptions of family of origin functioning are directly and indirectly associated with relationship success
” and “A dynamic state-space analysis of interpersonal emotion regulation in couples who smoke
” are about plain friendship.
All those titles are from the latest issue and none of the titles of that issue sound to me like the focus on plain friendship.
On further note, the fact that the first answer points to a journal that isn’t about normal friendship illustrates that Ritalin’s general question hits a deeper point.
Further research among the second journal’s older issues shows that it treats at least two of the other “loves” (romance, family), and support networks in a general sense, but In five issues I’ve yet to find a single article about friendship as such. The one time it’s mentioned in a title it’s in relation to romance: “Creating positive out-group attitudes through intergroup couple friendships and implications for compassionate love.”
It just occured to me.. is there such a thing as Friendship Research? There’s a lot of research on eros, sexuality and romance, and on family relations, storge, and on general altruism, agape, but what about plain old Friendship/Phileo?
Apparently, yes, there is:
http://amityjournal.leeds.ac.uk
http://spr.sagepub.com
I don’t see how papers in the second journal with titles like “How partners’ temptation leads to their heightened commitment: The interpersonal regulation of infidelity threats”, “Passion for life: Self-expansion and passionate love across the life span”, “Young adult romantic relationships in Mainland China: Perceptions of family of origin functioning are directly and indirectly associated with relationship success ” and “A dynamic state-space analysis of interpersonal emotion regulation in couples who smoke ” are about plain friendship.
All those titles are from the latest issue and none of the titles of that issue sound to me like the focus on plain friendship.
On further note, the fact that the first answer points to a journal that isn’t about normal friendship illustrates that Ritalin’s general question hits a deeper point.
Further research among the second journal’s older issues shows that it treats at least two of the other “loves” (romance, family), and support networks in a general sense, but In five issues I’ve yet to find a single article about friendship as such. The one time it’s mentioned in a title it’s in relation to romance: “Creating positive out-group attitudes through intergroup couple friendships and implications for compassionate love.”
It’s like they take friendship for granted!