Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

Question

1. Many boys learn to ground their friendships in shared activities, particularly sports.
2. The phrase “closeness in the doing” describes the way many men build friendships. When men do talk, they often talk about activities.
3. Men’s friendships have an instrumental focus, in which men do things to help one another out.
4. Men tend to talk indirectly about their serious feelings with other men. Often serious emotional issues are shrouded in “joke talk” or friends will suggest diversionary tactics to take a friend’s mind off his troubles.
5. Men’s relationships may involve covert intimacy, in which affection is signaled through teasing, friendly competition, playful punches, and the like as a means of demonstrating care. They are also more likely to offer invisible support in response to a particular stressor or event where the recipient doesn’t have it as support.
6. Men’s friendships tend to be narrower in scope than women’s friendships, with different friends for various spheres of interest.

Answer 1

1. T
2. T
3. T
4. T
5. T
6. T