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Interpersonal Communication- A Mindful Approach to Relationships, 2020a

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friendship. People who are in unhealthy friendships that are enjoyable are in a<br />

problematic friendship. Lastly, people who are in unhealthy friendships that are<br />

unenjoyable are in a deviant friendship.<br />

Exercises<br />

• Think back on a friendship that you no longer have. Take that friendship through<br />

all seven of Rawlins’ friendship stages. How did you decide when the friendship<br />

entered in<strong>to</strong> a new stage?<br />

• Think about your patterns of friendships in your life. Based on the information<br />

you learned from Matthews, what type of friendship style do you have? What<br />

made you decide that this friendship style most accurately reflects your approach<br />

<strong>to</strong> friendships?<br />

• Thinking about the intersection of healthy friendships and enjoyability, think of<br />

one friendship from your own life (past or present) that fits in<strong>to</strong> each category.<br />

After coming up with four friendships, differentiate among the four friendships<br />

and their outcomes.<br />

10.3 Friendships in Different Contexts<br />

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Learning<br />

Outcomes<br />

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5. Interpret the impact that mediated technologies have on<br />

friendships.<br />

So far in this chapter, we’ve explored the foundational building blocks for understanding friendships.<br />

We’re now going <strong>to</strong> break friendships down by looking at them in several different contexts: gender and<br />

friendships, cross-group friendships, and mediated friendships.<br />

Gender and Friendships<br />

Based on a more traditional differentiation of both same and opposite sex friendships, early friendship<br />

research divided friendships in<strong>to</strong> two categories communal and agentic. Communal friendships were<br />

marked by intimacy, personal/emotional expressiveness, amount of self-disclosure, quality of selfdisclosure,<br />

confiding, and emotional supportiveness. 43 Agentic friendships, on the other hand, were<br />

activity-centered. Figure 10.6 illustrates three curves associated with these concepts. The first one shows<br />

women being communal and men being agentic in their friendships, which was a common perspective on<br />

<strong>Interpersonal</strong> <strong>Communication</strong> 344

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