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Monsour, William Michael, III 2015-05-13T15:38:37Z 2015-05-13T15:38:37Z 10000-01-01 1988 1988 In this dissertation I attempt to identify the antecedent conditions predicting the frequency of cross-sex friendships, to investigate the functions those friendships serve, and to determine in what ways the communication of cross-sex friends might be differentiated from that of same-sex friends and romantic partners. An eleven page survey and the videotaped conversations of 120 dyads were used. An individual's romantic status predicted the frequency of cross-sex friends for females but not males--whereas the frequency of interaction with opposite-sex others predicted the frequency of cross-sex friends for males but not females. The need for opposite-sex companionship was positively correlated with the frequency of cross-sex friendships for females; for males the need to be expressive and the need for sexual gratification was positively correlated with the number of cross-sex friends. Individuals placed more than a moderate degree of importance on the functions served by cross-sex friends, and support was also garnered for the proposition that in many ways these functions are unique and cannot be met by same-sex friends or romantic partners. There was no significant difference in the intimacy displayed and reported on by males and females in cross-sex friendships, nor were there significant differences in attempts to control conversations, or actual control of those conversations. Though male same-sex friends were rated as being less intimate than the other dyads by the coders, when reporting on self-disclosures and emotional expressiveness they indicated being just as intimate as were males in cross-sex friendships, but less so than females in same-sex friendships, and males and females in romantic relationships. Females in same-sex friendships reported self-disclosing more and being more emotionally expressive than all other individuals, and the ratings of intimacy by the coders verified their self-reports. Though romantic partners reported self-disclosing more and being more expressive than all other individuals in all other dyads (except for females in same-sex friendships), they were rated by the observers of the videotapes as lower in intimacy than the cross-sex friends and female same-sex friends, and higher than the male same-sex friends. Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-13T15:38:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 8908784.PDF: 16538450 bytes, checksum: 1b28de5e07adeecdecca40f05330ac02 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1988 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 78519 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 365 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/77308 (UMI)AAI8908784 eng Speech Communication Cross-Sex Friendships in a Changing Society: A Comparative Analysis of Cross-Sex Friendships, Same-Sex Friendships, and Romantic Relationships text Speech Communication Speech Communication University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.