APS

30th APS Annual Convention · 2018

Friends Matter - Quality of Life Not Academic Success Correlate to Friendship Quality

San Francisco, CA · May 2018

Poster · Social

  • Heather Chabot
    New England College
  • Christopher Ambrose MacNeil
    New England College
  • Amanda James
    New England College
  • Delaney Chabot
    Plymouth State University

Abstract

One-hundred-and-five undergraduates completed the Friendship Quality Questionnaire (Parker & Asher, 1993). Friendship values of trust, closeness, acceptance, and helpfulness, correlated positively to life satisfaction, happiness, and mental wellbeing but not GPA. Results suggest that the quality of friendships is important to the overall positivity of life but not academic success.

Social Groups/Social Relationships

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