1. Gendered Differences in Same-Sex Friendships HyoJi Park Sociology 235 Gender role in society

2. Interests I saw many cases Male’s friendship and Female’s friendship are different. These differences may represent gendered stereotypes. So, I guess that the differences may be caused by cultural effects. Because I am from Korea, which has strong gendered stereotypes, I start to research about this.

3. Hypothesis Since Korean culture is still contributed by strong stereotypes in gender, Korean teenagers will show male’s intimacy and female’s intimacy as inexpressiveness and expressiveness, activity oriented and person oriented, side-to-side and face-to-face style of interaction, and deep lasting relationship and short period relationship by following the stereotypes of male and female, such as calm and friendly.

4. Background Kimmel says…. “there are sex differences in same sex friendship.”

6. The number of times spoke with closest friends

8. Survey Target - 30 girls and 28 boys - 18 years old (senior high school students) - Korean. 12 short-answer questions in terms of their own friendships are asked.

10. Girl’s the Mean of Length of Being Friendship is.. 4.8 years

11. Girl’s the Mean of Number of Contact to Best Friend in a week is.. 5.4 days

12. Girl’s the Mean of Time of Speaking with Best Friend on the phone a day is.. 28.7 mins

13. Girl’s Activity with Best Friend is.. Talking (97% of girls say..)

14. The Number of Girls who share secret with Best Friend is.. 21 girls

16. Cont. Result Table1.2 The Years of Being Together as a Friend

17. Cont. Result Table 1.3 Girl’s and Boy’s friendship

18. Conclusion There are both sex differences and no difference in the same sex friendships. Differences- Meaning of Best Friends - Time of Speaking with Best Friend on the phone daily - Activity with Best Friend - The Number of who share secret with Best Friend - Percentage of how much they trust Best Friend No Differences-Number of Best Friend - Length of Being Friendship - Number of Contact to Best Friend in a week

19. Cont. Conclusion There are cultural effects. Korean culture is conservative and has strong stereotypes in male and female. The stereotypes result in people’s perception about the gendered images. In reality, there are some differences in the way to get along with best friends, to talking about self-disclosure, and to show their intimacy; on the contrary, there are no differences in maintenance of friendships such as similar results in the number of contact with closest friends, in emotional expression, in the length of friendships. Unlike my expectation, Korean boys did not have gendered images. I assume that Korean society becomes involved in gender equality.

20. References Kimmel, Micheal. (2011). The gendered society: Gendered intimacies. New York: Oxford University Press. 317-324 Oswald, D., Clark, E., & Kelly, C. (2004). FRIENDSHIP MAINTENANCE: AN ANALYSIS OF INDIVIDUAL AND DYAD BEHAVIORS. Journal of Social & Clinical Psychology, 23(3), 413-441. Retrieved from Academic Search Complete database. Roy, R., & Benenson, J. (2000). Beyond Intimacy: Conceptualizing Sex Differences in Same-Sex Friendships. Journal of Psychology, 134(1), 93. Retrieved from Academic Search Complete database.