US participants with higher rates of offline
friendship quality showed lower levels of life satisfaction.
The overall model for the prediction of mixed
friendship quality showed to be statistically significant with only hearing status, country, school setting and age in it, F (5, 189) = 2,84, p <.05, R2 =.07.
Not exact matches
While the narrative tends to be predictable (a
quality seemingly inherent to any feel - good comedy of its ilk), the filmmakers rather adeptly
show that sisterhood and female
friendship are the healthy keys to success.
Research
shows that the determining factor in whether wives and husbands feel satisfied with the sex, romance, and passion in their marriage is, by 70 %, the
quality of the couple's
friendship.
Long term research has
shown that the
quality of a couples»
friendship and feeling of connection are fundamental in being able to successfully manage the inevitable difficulties that will arise over the years together.
Research by The Gottman Institute has
shown that the
quality of a couples»
friendship and feeling of connection are fundamental in being able to successfully manage the inevitable challenges that will arise in their lives together.
The results of the study
showed that male - female
friendship quality was associated with more frequent requests for coalitional mate retention.
Gottman's research also
shows that the single highest predictor of marital adjustment after baby arrives is the
quality of
friendship in the marriage.
Previous research also
showed that online communication with existing friends is positively related to the
quality of the
friendship with them [27], [28].
Although, sampling differences between the US and Dutch participants (i.e. there were no high school students in the US sample) might partly explain this result, it stil is remarkable, as previous Dutch studies
showed that D / HH students do have a lower
friendship quality than hearing students [1], [8].
Older students
showed a higher offline
friendship quality than younger students.
This was in accordance with a previous study [36] that
showed that companionship and self - validation were the most important aspects of
friendship quality that accounted for the person's happiness.
Indirect effects
showed that they also experienced declines in
friendship quality and popularity, which in turn led to increases in depressive symptoms.
Further analyses
showed that there was a positive association between offline
friendship quality and life satisfaction in the Netherlands (B = 3.07, SE =.79, p <.01).
Positive peer relationships, such as having friends, being accepted by peers and the
quality of
friendship are
shown to protect against loneliness [48, 49].
In boys, social anxiety moderated this relationship: high socially anxious boys who
showed a higher use of the computer reported more positive
friendship qualities compared to those who reported less computer use with friends.