EDITORS' NOTES

Ernest V.E. Hodges, Noel A. Card

1. I Hate You Just the Way You Are: Exploring the Formation, Maintenance, and Need for Enemies

Maurissa Abecassis

Prior theoretical and empirical literature is reviewed, and a conceptual framework for exploring mutual antipathies is provided.

2. Parent-Child Relationships and Enmity with Peers: The Role of Avoidant and Preoccupied Attachment

Noel A. Card, Ernest V.E. Hodges

Linkages between parenting and enemy relationships with peers are discussed, and data demonstrating that enemies are dissimilar and incompatible in their attachment orientations are presented.

3. Mutual Antipathies in the Peer Group as a Moderating Factor in the Association Between Community Violence Exposure and Psychosocial Maladjustment

David Schwartz, Andrea Hopmeyer-Gorman, Robin L. Toblin, Tania Abou-ezzeddine

Enemies with peers are demonstrated to exacerbate the association between community violence exposure and maladjustment.

4. Describing the Dark Side of Preadolescents' Peer Experiences: Four Questions (and Data) on Preadolescents' Enemies

Jeffrey G. Parker, Bridget K. Gamm

The prevalence, adjustment correlates, social behavior, and interpersonal perceptions involved in preadolescent enmity are examined.

5. Enemies in the Gendered societies of Middle Childhood: Prevalence, Stability, Associations with Social status, and Aggression

Philip C. Rodkin, Ruth Pearl, Thomas W. Farmer, Richard Van Acker

The role of gender in childhood enmity is explored, and the stability of having enemies and inimical dyads over time is examined.

6. Developmental Risk Associatedd with Mutual Dislike in Elementary school Children

Alice W. Pope

Nomination and rating-scale methods of assessing enemies are contrasted in terms of concurrent and longitudinal associations between enemies and maladjustment.

7. Toward Understanding Mutual Antipathies in Childhood and Adolescence

Willard W. Hartup

The chapters in this volume are discussed, and directions for future research are offered.

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