. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Youth Adolesc. 2013 May 11;43(2):233–244. doi: 10.1007/s10964-013-9961-1

Table 3.

Effect Estimates of Adolescent (Actor) and Friend (Partner) Perceived Friendship Qualities Predicting Reasoning

Form of Reasoning
		Number of Reasons	Moral	Social Conventional/Friendship	Pragmatic/Prudential

Friendship Quality Subscale	Effects	B	B	B	B
Validation and Caring	Sex	-1.25^**	-.29	.12	.15
	Total Reasons Given in Dyad	--	.23^***	.17^***	.10^***
	Actor	.60^*	.10	-.13	.05
	Partner	.43	-.07	.15	-.12
	Actor × Partner	.54	-.01	-.10	.01

Conflict and Betrayal	Sex	-1.50^***	-.30	.12	.16
	Total Reasons Given in Dyad	--	.23^***	.17^***	.10^***
	Actor	-.40	-.13	.19	.03
	Partner	-.62^*	-.18	-.10	.14
	Actor × Partner	.53	.19	-.01	-.18

Conflict Resolution	Sex	-1.42^***	-.27	.09	.16
	Total Reasons Given in Dyad	--	.23^***	.17^***	.10^***
	Actor	.60^**	.30^*	-.14	.12
	Partner	-.02	-.09	-.08	-.15^*
	Actor × Partner	.31	.32^**	-.22^*	-.09

Note.

p < .05

^**

p < .01

^***

p < .001.