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‘Evaluate the usefulness of Bigelow and La Gaipa’s work for understanding children’s friendship.’

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In the 70s, relationship
research
 in psychology focused on the study of emotional bonds between people. Researchers reduced the role of children's
friendship
 to the question of what makes them feel attracted to each other? Understanding the phenomenon of
friendship
 in
more complex context
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more complex contexts
a more complex context
 of psychology was limited. In 1975, Brian Bigelow and John La
Gaipa
 researched changes in the way children perceive and define
friendship depending
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friendship, depending
 on their age and stage of development.
This
essay
 will evaluate the usefulness of those findings and their
further
 influence
on
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in
 shaping the understanding of children's friendships.
Initially
, Bigelow and La
Gaipa
's intention was to explore the differences in children's expectations towards their best friends at different stages of development. Researchers were interested in exploring changes in the perception of friendships that occur as the children grow up. Equally, their innovative
research
 has opened a new chapter in understanding child
friendship
- an issue that has been unnoticed by psychology up to
this
 point. To explore how children understand
friendship
, Bigelow and La
Gaipa
 asked them to write an
essay
, describing the relationship with the same-sex best friend. Their task was to indicate the differences in expectations towards best friend and other colleagues.
However
, researchers did not consider
friendship
 between children of opposite sexes, which could have an impact on the results of their
research
. To conduct
research
, Bigelow and La
Gaipa
 collected 480 essays written by different-sex children aged 6 to 14 years. They came from lower-middle-class and upper-working-class families. Eight different schools based in Windsor, Ontario, Canada joined the study. 30 boys and 30 girls were appointed from each of them to take part. A large sample group was undoubtedly an asset.
However
, the
method
 of selecting participants for the studies could result in a sampling error.
Additionally
, their
research
 has devalued the influence of culture. Gonzalez et al conducted a study based on the
method
 used by Bigelow and La
Gaipa
 in Cuba and Canada. The result showed
similarities but
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similarities, but
also
 emphasized significant differences in
understanding
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understanding, friendship
friendship
 between children from collectivist and individualistic cultures. Before Bigelow and La
Gaipa
 began the studies, they created a list of different characteristics that children could want to include when describing their best friend. Researchers divided the list into 21 categories and
then
 used content analysis in each
essay
.
Furthermore
, they could quickly analyse samples of 480 essays by subordinating characteristics to categories already defined and applying frequency count. An additional advantage of the
method
 used was the possibility of comparing differences in
understanding
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understanding, friendship
friendship
 between children of different ages or opposite sexes.
However
, its limitation subordinated the characteristics of
friendship
 to predetermined coding.
Such
 a solution excluded the inclusion of traits indicated in the
essay
 by children if their reasoning did not fit into categories created by the researchers. In view of the above, I suspect that the
method
 could have contributed to affecting
research
 findings by confirmatory bias.
Furthermore
, generalisation through the transformation of qualitative into quantitative data caused the loss in describing individual and personal dimensions on the studied children.
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Include an introduction and conclusion

A conclusion is essential for IELTS writing task 2. It is more important than most people realise. You will be penalised for missing a conclusion in your IELTS essay.

The easiest paragraph to write in an essay is the conclusion paragraph. This is because the paragraph mostly contains information that has already been presented in the essay – it is just the repetition of some information written in the introduction paragraph and supporting paragraphs.

The conclusion paragraph only has 3 sentences:

  • Summary
  • Restatement of thesis
  • Prediction or recommendation

Example:

To summarize, a robotic teacher does not have the necessary disciple to properly give instructions to students and actually works to retard the ability of a student to comprehend new lessons. Therefore, it is clear that the idea of running a classroom completely by a machine cannot be supported. After thorough analysis on this subject, it is predicted that the adverse effects of the debate over technology-driven teaching will always be greater than the positive effects, and because of this, classroom teachers will never be substituted for technology.

Start your conclusion with a linking phrase. Here are some examples:

  • In conclusion
  • To conclude
  • To summarize
  • Finally
  • In a nutshell
  • In general

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