1. Introduction to the Special Issue

   • Lorrie K. Sippola

   Editorial Introduction Pages: 405 - 406

2. Getting to Know the “Other”: The Characteristics and Developmental Significance of Other-Sex Relationships in Adolescence

   • Lorrie K. Sippola

   OriginalPaper Pages: 407 - 418

3. Stability, Change and Individual Differences in Involvement with Friends and Romantic Partners Among Adolescent Females

   • Melanie J. Zimmer-Gembeck

   OriginalPaper Pages: 419 - 438

4. Same and Other: Interdependency Between Participation in Same- and Other-Sex Friendships

   • William M. Bukowski
   • Lorrie K. Sippola
   • Betsy Hoza

   OriginalPaper Pages: 439 - 459

5. Mixed-Sex Settings and the Perception of Competence

   • Nancy Darling
   • Bonnie B. Dowdy
   • Linda L. Caldwell

   OriginalPaper Pages: 461 - 480

6. Conceptions of Cross-Sex Friendships and Romantic Relationships in Early Adolescence

   • Jennifer Connolly
   • Wendy Craig
   • Debra Pepler

   OriginalPaper Pages: 481 - 494

7. Other-Sex Friendship Networks and the Development of Romantic Relationships in Adolescence

   • Candice Feiring

   OriginalPaper Pages: 495 - 512

8. A Story of Adolescence: The Emergence of Other-Sex Relationships

   • Wyndol Furman
   • Laura A. Shaffer

   Commentary Pages: 513 - 522