Kerns and Stevens (1996) analyzed questionnaires, daily logs, and personality measures of 112 college-age psychology students and the nominated friends of 90 of the subjects. The data suggest seemingly contradictory findings: 1) that closeness to, and the ability to depend on, parents is related to the feeling of connectedness to others; and 2) that parent-child attachment is not related to the quality of peer relationships. However, the authors point out that the reported quality of peer relationships may have an inherently poor association with parent-child attachment for a variety of reasons, such as the fact that adolescent friendships are voluntary and transitory in character. At any given time, youth are most likely to be involved only in those they consider to be of good quality, having terminated previous friendships considered to be of poor quality. As such, subjects are more likely to consistently respond that they are part of good quality friendships, regardless of any history of poor friendships (Kerns & Stevens, 1996).