This is the first study to examine the independent, simultaneous, and relative roles of several factors-sex, relationship commitment, perceptions of the benefits vs. costs of cross-sex (vs. same-sex) friendships, gender role orientation, and sexism-in the number of cross-sex (vs. same-sex) friendships people have. The latter four constructs were independently found to predict participants' proportions of cross-sex friendships. Furthermore, a model comprised of all five factors provided a very good fit to the data, explaining 35% of the variability in the degree to which the participants possessed cross-sex friendships. Perceptions regarding the general benefits of both same- and cross-sex friendships and cross-gender role orientation continued to explain proportion of cross-sex friendship when the other factors were controlled. © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2006.
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Lenton, A. P., & Webber, L. (2006). Cross-sex friendships: Who has more? Sex Roles, 54(11–12), 809–820. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-006-9048-5
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