College Students’ Friendship Quality (original) (raw)
Related papers
College Students ’ Friendship Quality Mr
2017
The significance of friend support in the lives of individual’s has been evidenced by psychological research across different age groups. Having friends was correlated with a sense of well-being across one’s life span and that the developmental outcome depended on the quality of the friendship. This study was aimed at identifying quality of friendship among some selected college students using the friendship quality scale. Samples of 401 college students were selected using proportionate sampling techniques from four colleges in Ethiopia and standardized Friendship Quality Scale (FQS) was administered to the samples. Finally, the data was analysed via descriptive statistics (mode). The analysis showed weak quality friendship among college students in its entirety. However, among the four dimensions, separately the help dimension merely contributed higher percentage (69.3%) to the relationship of college students followed by acceptance (47.1%). With respect to the remaining two dimen...
Description of Friendship Quality in Yogyakarta Students
Jurnal Psikologi : Media Ilmiah Psikologi, 2020
Friendship is an adaptive function of individual maturity to fulfill a number of social, cognitive, and emotional needs. The purpose of this study is to find out the meaning of the quality of student friendship based on the stage of development and gender. The subjects of this study were S1 and S2 students in Yogyakarta with 200 students. The sampling technique used was a non-probability convenience sampling technique. The data collection tool is a closed and open questionnaire, with content analysis as the analysis of the data. The results showed that in the late male adolescent group, individuals felt close to their best friend, in the late adolescent group of women, individuals felt they believed their best friend could be a confidant who was able to provide solutions, in the early adult groups of men understanding and supporting each other as reasons the quality of friendship is broken, and in the early adult groups women confide in and believe as the reason for the quality of f...
Friendship Quality Scale: Conceptualization, Development and Validation
Australian Association For Research in Education, 2012
The purpose of this study is twofold: (1) to initialize a new conceptualization of positive feature based Friendship Quality (FQUA) scale on the basis of four dimensions: Closeness, Help, Acceptance, and Safety; and (2) to develop and validate FQUA scale in the form of reflective measurement model. The scale development and validation procedures suggested in literature were employed. A total of 480 Malaysian secondary school Form Four students sample was selected using Multistage Stratified Cluster Sampling. Data was analyzed using Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) techniques with the software of SPSS version 15.0. The reliability and construct validity were warranted with the parameter estimates lie within the acceptable range. The factor structure of FQUA scale showed its stability with the parameter estimates were found comparable in three different datasets. Approximately 62% of variance in FQUA was accounted for by Closeness, Help, Acceptance, and Safety. FQUA scale with 21 items measured was validated rigorously. Overall, this study has advanced a set of positive features of friendship in conceptualizing FQUA pertaining to the nature of reflective measurement where the positive features of friendship should be correlated with one and other. The validated FQUA scale deserves to be further explored to ensure its generalizability.
Friendships Quality and Classmates Support: How to influence the well-being of adolescents
Higher Education of Social Science, 2014
The purpose of this study is to analyze the influence of quality friendship and classmates support on risk behaviour and well-being of Portuguese adolescents. The sample was composed by individuals that participated in the study in continental Portugal, integrating the European study HBSC-Health Behaviour in School-aged Children. The study included a total of 4877 students from the 6th, 8th and 10th grades from Portuguese public schools, with an average age of 14 years. The results revealed the trend towards classmates' more protection for involvement in risky behaviour, than to have high quality friends. The quality of friendship comes as the protector factor to other areas just as important, as happiness, life satisfaction and quality of life.
Friendship and Psychological Well-Being
" Some people go to priests. Others to poetry.I to my friends ". This quotation by Virginia Woolfe would be the perfect way to start this study. " A faithful friend is the medicine of life. " Again a quotation but this time by Apocrypha is apt to define the purpose of this study. Everyone has friends – sometimes only one, while at other times, many. But what is the importance of friendship or friends to a person? How does having a friend help us in our time of need, problems and sorrow? Is it possible that friendship relaxes us or reduces our tensions? Does friendship have effect on our well-being and especially psychological well-being? The aim of the current study was to find out what role does Friendship play in Psychological Well-Being. The study was carried on the sample of 200 individuals all aged from 17 to 35. Dimensions of Friendship Scale (SunandaChandna and N.K. Chadha, 1986) and Psychological Well-Being Scale (Bhogle and Jai Prakesh, 1995) were used for the purpose of measurement. Results indicated that there is a significant positive correlation (r = .723) at 0.01 level of significance between friendship and psychological well-being.
The Quality of Friendships in Students Who Experience Trust Problems
KESANS : International Journal of Health and Science
Introduction: Conflicts between individuals often clash with friendships; one of the causes is trust issues. Trust issues related to how one thinks about others; The existence of a negative mindset (negative thinking) to friends can damage trust and hurt friendship relationships. This negative mindset can affect the quality of friendships among students. Objective: This study aims to analyze the quality of friendships in students who experience trust problems. Method: One hundred and fifteen respondents have/are experiencing trust problems filling out this questionnaire. The friendship quality category was analyzed using simple correlation and regression analysis. Result and Discussion: The results of this study show that negative thinking patterns and friendship quality in students have a negative correlation. Conclusion: The lower the negative thinking, the higher the quality of the company, and vice versa; the higher the negative thinking, the lower the level of friendship.
This study aims to examine the effects of friendship skills training on the quality of friendship and subjective well-being of adolescents. In order to determine the experimental and control groups, the Friendship Quality Scale and the Adolescent Subjective Well-Being Scale were administered to 311 students in 9 th , 10 th and 11 th grade classes from a state school in İskenderun in Hatay during the 2015-2016 education year. As a result, 21 students who had lower than average scores were included in the study. Students who participated in the study were assigned to the experimental and control groups randomly. An 8-session psycho-education program ("Beginning Friendships, Maintaining and Protecting Training") which were developed by Morganett (2013) have been conducted with the students in the experimental group while the control group received no treatment. After the sessions, the same measurement tools were applied on both the experimental and control groups. The data ga...
The Turkish Adaptation of the Friendship Qualities Scale: A Validity and Reliability Study
Educational Sciences: Theory & Practice, 2014
In this study, the authors have aimed to adapt the Friendship Qualities Scale (FQS) in order to determine friendship relation levels among adolescents. A total of 603 high school students from Ankara Turkey, were selected using convenient sampling to participate in this study. During the course of this study, the FQS was first translated into Turkish and then its psychometric properties were examined. The construct validity of the FQS was tested using a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Before performing the CFA, the assumption of missing values, outliers, normality, and collineriaty were checked. According to the results, the 22-item FQS consisting of 5 dimensions had acceptable goodness of fit indexes (S-Bx 2 /df = 669.12/199, p= .00, RMSEA = .063, CFI = .97, GFI = .88, NNFI = .96). The Cronbach alpha coefficients of the subscales ranged between .66 and .86. The internal consistency for the entire scale was α = .85. In conclusion, an instrument consisting of 22 items and 5 subscales was prepared for future researchers.
Attachment as a Predictor of Friendship Qualities in College Youth
Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal, 2005
This study examined the relationship between adult attachment style and friendship qualities in a sample of 330 undergraduates using the Adult Attachment Measure (Hazan & Shaver, 1987) and the Friendship Qualities Scale (Bukowski, Hoza, & Boivin, 1994). Results indicated that securely attached individuals showed higher levels of transcending problems in their friendships and lower levels of conflict, while avoidant individuals showed higher levels of conflict and lower levels of companionship. Interactions between attachment style, sex of the participant, and the sex of the friend (same/opposite sex) suggested the combined impact of these variables on specific friendship qualities.
Association between Friendship Quality and Depression among High School Students in Jakarta
Proceedings of the Universitas Indonesia International Psychology Symposium for Undergraduate Research (UIPSUR 2017), 2018
This study aims to investigate whether any correlation between friendship quality and depression among high school students in Jakarta. Friendship Quality Scale (FQS) and Hopkins Symptom Checklist 25 (HSCL-25) are used to measure friendship quality and psychological distress in the form of depressive symptoms. Participants of this study were 746 tenth graders from five high schools in Jakarta as an urban city. The result of this study shows that there is a significant difference in friendship quality between male and female adolescents, where female adolescents tend to have higher friendship quality compared to friendship among male adolescents. Contrary to findings from previous studies, this study shows a positive correlation between friendship quality and depression. This finding indicates higher friendship quality correlates with higher depressive symptoms, whereas lower friendship quality correlates with lower depressive symptoms among adolescents. Future research is needed to explore the dynamics of the positive correlation between friendship quality and depression.