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Affiliate Relationship between two companies when one company owns substantial interest, but less than a majority of the voting stock of another company, or when two companies are both subsidiaries of a third company. See: Subsidiaries, parent company.
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Boys tend to develop power-based
social relationships while girls use more affiliative activities (Lane,
1989). Effective emotional support provided by a family or community
support network could include building an affiliative bond, providing
advice and positive feedback, and other expressions of appreciation for
grandparents who fill the surrogate parent role.
Affiliation-intimacy motivation includes four subcategories: (a)
expression of friendly or intimate feelings toward others; (b) sadness
or other negative feeling about separation from a friend, or wanting to
restore a friendship; (c) affiliative activities, such as parties or
friendly conversation; and (d) friendly nurturing acts, such as
comforting or expressions of sympathetic concern. |
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