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...

" 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.

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...

One of the important achievements of the childhood is achieving social skills that can be promoted by on time training . This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of FRIENDS training programs on children's social skills in Shiraz . Research method is apre-test and post-test quasi-experimental and follow-up with the control group. The statistical population included all 9 to 11 years old male and female children in Shiraz elementary schools in the academic year 2014-15 that among them, 20 students were selected by multistage random cluster sampling method by using the social norms Gresham Elliott teachers form and were randomly divided into two test groups (n = 10) and control group (n = 10). The test group had been trained for 3 months and the control group did not receive any interference; after the end of the program, the test was taken and the follow-up stage was conducted one month after intervention.Dataanalysis was performed based on multivariate analysis of covarianc...