Friendship Problems Research Articles

Peran Guru Bimbingan dan Konseling mengenai Program dan Layanan BK di SMA

In this interview, we discussed the guidance and counseling program at SMA Negeri 5 Tasikmalaya, with a focus on assessment, academic services, and career guidance. The interview with Mrs. Ana, a guidance counselor at the school, revealed various issues faced by students, such as choosing majors, friendship problems, and learning difficulties. The guidance program at this school aims to help students overcome personal problems, manage stress, and enhance self-learning skills. With the counselor's crucial role in character development, continuous evaluation is necessary to ensure the effectiveness of the services provided. The interview was conducted using an unstructured interview technique with one of the guidance counselors at SMA Negeri 5 Tasikmalaya. The results of the interview found that the performance of guidance counselors at SMA Negeri 5 Tasikmalaya in guidance and counseling programs and services is quite good.

Recent stressful life events and identity development in emerging adults: An examination of within-person effects.

To examine longitudinal associations among stressful life events and identity processess in emerging adults while accounting for within-person and between-person effects. Theoretical perspectives suggest that stressful life events may impact one's identity (i.e., coherent sense of self), but few studies have considered how changes in stressful life events are associated with changes within an individual's identity development over time (within-person effects). Recent stressful life events (i.e., academic problems, friendship problems, romantic problems, and time pressure) and the processes through which identity develops (e.g., exploring in breadth and depth) were examined longitudinally (T1-T3) in a sample of emerging adults (N = 1125, Mage = 17.96 years). Random-intercept cross-lagged modeling demonstrated that at the between-person level, emerging adults with greater academic and friendship problems, as well as more time pressures (relative to their counterparts), tended to engage in greater ruminative exploration. Further, those with more academic problems tended to demonstrate weaker commitment-making and exploration in breadth and depth (relative to their counterparts). Within-person increases in romantic problems predicted lower commitment-making and higher ruminative exploration over time. Findings suggest that romantic problems may predict within-person changes in identity processes, whereas academic problems, friendship problems, and time pressure may be more concurrently related to identity development.

Family–Friendship Linkages in Youths With Autism Spectrum Disorder

AbstractObjectiveTo examine the relative contribution of family functioning to friendship quality in youths with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).BackgroundYouths with ASD often experience problems in their friendships. Although researchers have identified linkages between individual youth characteristics and friendship difficulties in youths with ASD, much less is known about the possible linkages between family and friendship problems in this population. However, the family system is an important context in which youths with ASD can learn skills that are necessary for developing friendships.MethodThe current study examined the relations of key dimensions of family functioning and caregiver romantic relationships to central domains of friendship quality in youths with ASD, while also accounting for individual characteristics of the youths. Participants included youths with ASD (N = 93) and their primary caregivers who completed measures that assessed family, caregiver, and friendship variables.ResultsHierarchical linear regression models revealed that family functioning and caregiver romantic relationships explained significant variance in domains of youth friendship quality above and beyond individual youth characteristics.ConclusionFriendships in youths with ASD were more strongly related to important elements of the family system than to various characteristics of the individual youth.ImplicationsFamily relations should be considered in interventions that aim to improve peer relations for youth with ASD.

Friendship and Personality Toward the Main Character in Wendy Mass’ The Candymakers

The aims of the research are to find out the friendship and personality through the characters in the novel and to describe the impact of personality that affect their friendship towards the characters. The research applied the library research to get as many data from the novel and some books containing theories which connect to the research. The primary data was taken from The Candymakers by Wendy Mass. The writer used a qualitative descriptive research by using sociological approach and the theory of Aristotle for friendship and Neo-Freud’s theory of personality. The result shows the result of this study the types of friendship dominated by Virtuous/ Admiration because became a guide in made a friend. The types of personality in this study dominated by Aggressive personality but the impact that affect their friendship it would be Detached personality because solve the problem of friendship.

아동․청소년의 태권도시범단 활동이 교우관계 문제와 자아존중감에 미치는 효과

This study investigated the effects of the Taekwondo Demonstration Team activities on peer relationship problems and self-esteem of children and adolescents. This study considered it necessary to study how the Taekwondo Demonstration Team solves the problems of friendship between children and adolescents and how self-esteem changes. The purpose of this study is to provide basic data to help children and adolescents suffering from interpersonal problems and low self-esteem. The subject of this study was to analyze a total of 50 copies of data from trainees of elementary and middle school students at Taekwondo studios located in the 2 areas of U and G. The experiment period was from February to May 2022, and 25 people in the experimental group and 25 people in the comparison group were compared and analyzed before and after, respectively. Correspondence t-test was performed for data analysis using SPSS 27.0 to verify the effect on friendship problems and self-esteem.As a result of the study, the experimental group had a significant effect on friendship problems and self-esteem after Taekwondo demonstration group activities. As a result, it was found that the activities of the Taekwondo Demonstration Team of children and adolescents improved the problem of friendship and increased self-esteem.

Philosophy of friendship with a place as interpretive support for cultural psychology

Why is it important for cultural psychology to look attentively and inspirationally into the depths of the problem of friendship? Focussing on the cultural empowerment of a man, the search for meaning in life, but also in the art of life which binds ars bene vivendi with ars bene moriendi, cultural psychology should not lose sight of the art of friendship, but also of its connection with mobile practices of the contemporary world, for in this space of encounters friendship constitutes a philosophical recommendation and a cultural challenge. I propose therefore turn to the philosophical and cultural space in order to analyse the experience of friendship with a place, interpretively extracting those elements of experience that are crucial for in-depth and contextual thinking about man. Here cultural psychology can find inspiration. I deliberately refer to the transcultural space to indicate the possibilities of experiencing the problem of being in a place. Philosophy of friendship anchored in a transcultural context helps to bring out the multi-dimensionality of the experience of self and the Other, which complements psychological research.

Adolescent perspectives on depression as a disease of loneliness: a qualitative study with youth and other stakeholders in urban Nepal

BackgroundThere is a lack of research on the adolescent experience of depression in low- and middle-income countries. Criteria derived from research conducted primarily among adult Western populations inform current diagnostic standards for depression. These clinical categories are often used without exploration of their relevance to adolescent experience. Also, reliance on these categories may overlook other symptoms of depression that manifest in non-western settings. Cross-cultural qualitative work with adults in non-Western settings has suggested some differences with experience of depression and symptoms that are most relevant to service users. Research into adolescent experiences of depression is warranted to inform the development of effective interventions.MethodsQualitative interviews were conducted in Nepal with adolescents with depressive symptoms (n = 9), healthy adolescents (n = 3), parents (n = 6), teachers (n = 10), social workers (n = 14), primary (n = 6) and mental (n = 6) healthcare providers, and policymakers (n = 6). Two focus groups were conducted with parents (n = 12) of depressed and non-depressed adolescents. Data were analyzed according to the framework approach methodology.ResultsLoneliness was the hallmark experience that stood out for all adolescents. This was connected with 5 other clusters of symptoms: low mood and anhedonia; disturbances in sleep and appetite, accompanied by fatigue; irritability and anger; negative self-appraisals including hopelessness and self-doubt; and suicidality. Adolescents distinguished depression from other forms of stress, locally referred to as tension, and described depression to involve having “deep tension.” Perceived causes of depression included (1) Family issues: neglectful or absent parents, relationship problems, and family discord; (2) Peer relationships: romantic problems, bullying, and friendship problems; and (3) Social media: social comparison, popularity metrics, cyberbullying, and leaking of personal information.ConclusionsConsistent with other cross-cultural studies, loneliness was a core element of the adolescent experience of depression, despite its absence as a primary symptom in current psychiatric diagnostic classifications. It is important to note that among youth, symptoms were clustered together and interrelated (e.g., sleep and appetite changes were connected with fatigue). This calls for the need for more cross-cultural qualitative research on experience of depression among adolescents, and potential for modification of diagnostic criteria and prevention and treatments to focus on the experience of loneliness.

Framework: The Effect Of Friendship Quality And Self-Esteem On Happiness In Late Teenage Students

Every individual is certainly inseparable from problems, be it personal problems or social problems that can affect to individual happiness. This problem also occurs in late teenage who are studying in college. In late teenage girls more often experience feelings of sadness, fear, and anxiety. The level of student happiness is influenced by friendship. This is shown by the phenomenon that occurs in students who experience sadness when they have friendship problems. In addition, self-esteem also affects their happiness. This is shown that the student feels less happy when unable to show his existence.
 This study aims to find out the influence of the quality of friendship and self-esteem on happiness in the students of late teenage.
 This research uses quantitative research types with survey methods. 228 female students are subject of this study. The scales used in the study are The Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (OHQ) Scale, The Friendship Quality (FQUA) Scale, and The Self Esteem Inventory (SEI) Scale. The data analysis used in this study is a multiple linear regression test.

Contributions of Friends’ Problem Behaviors to Friendship Quality in a Sample of Children with ADHD

ABSTRACT Objective It is often assumed that children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) experience friendship difficulties because of their own problem behaviors. However, friendships are dyadic relationships between two children. This study sought to understand the incremental contributions of friends’ problem behaviors to dyadic friendship quality in a clinically diagnosed sample of children with ADHD. Method One hundred and sixty-five dyads consisting of a target child with ADHD and social impairment (age 6–11; 67% male; 72% white) and a reciprocated, real-life friend were recruited. Parents and teachers rated the ADHD symptom severity, externalizing problems, and callous-unemotional (CU) traits of target children and friends. Friendship quality in the dyad was measured with: (a) questionnaires independently completed by target children, their parents, their friends, and the parents of their friends; and (b) observations of child-friend interactions. Results The severity of ADHD symptoms and externalizing problems (but not CU traits) in target children was associated with more negative friendship quality reported on questionnaires. Adjusting for the corresponding problem behavior in target children, each type of friends’ problem behaviors incrementally predicted less positive friendship quality (on questionnaires). Friends’ ADHD symptoms and CU traits also incrementally predicted more negative friendship quality (on questionnaires and observations). Conclusions Considering problem behaviors in friends of children with ADHD (in addition to those in children with ADHD) may be important for identifying dyads at risk for lower quality friendships. These findings could possibly lead to new directions when designing and evaluating treatments targeting the friendship problems of children with ADHD.

Generalized anxiety disorder and its homoeopathic management

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is one of the anxiety disorders where excess of worry related to several events is present. This excess of worry disturbs the normal functioning and these people are overly concerned about daily matters such as health issues, money, family problems, friendship problems, interpersonal relationship problems, and death or work difficulties. Homoeopathy offers a holistic approach in the management of Generalized anxiety disorder. A detailed case history followed by a thorough analysis and selection of most suitable remedy is the approach suggested by Dr Hahnemann. Also Psychotherapy and completion of cure by application of anti-psoric remedy are a must.

Treatment of friendship problems in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: Initial results from a randomized clinical trial.

This study evaluated a novel intervention for friendship problems in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Parental Friendship Coaching (PFC) teaches parents to coach their children in targeted friendship behaviors that are lacking in children with ADHD and that help children develop good quality friendships. Participants were 172 families of children with ADHD and social impairment (ages 6-11; 29.7% female) at two Canadian sites, randomized to PFC or to an active comparison intervention (Coping with ADHD through Relationships and Education; CARE) to control for common therapy factors. Questionnaire and observational measures assessing primary outcomes of children's friendship quality and secondary outcomes of children's friendship behaviors were collected at baseline, posttreatment, and 8-month follow-up. Across both treatment conditions, children showed improvements in positive friendship quality and in friendship behaviors. Relative to CARE, PFC was associated with somewhat more positive and less negative friendship behaviors at posttreatment and follow-up, but no difference between conditions was found in friendship quality. However, moderation analyses suggested that PFC may contribute to better friendship quality among families who had previous psychosocial treatment, as well as children with comorbid externalizing disorders. Although PFC showed some efficacy for affecting children's friendship behaviors, these changes may not translate into friendship quality. Nevertheless, PFC may improve friendship quality for at-risk subgroups of children with ADHD. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

Gender-Specific Drinking Contexts Are Associated With Social Harms Resulting From Drinking Among Australian Young Adults at 30Years.

Understanding contexts in which social harms from drinking occur can help develop context-based harm reduction efforts. However, there is little knowledge of specific drinking contexts where such harms occur and whether these are gender or age specific. We aimed to investigate associations of a range of drinking contexts and social harms from drinking among young adults at age 30. We used data from 2187 30-year-old adults. Latent constructs of gender-specific drinking contexts were created using factor analysis. We performed multivariate logistic regression between drinking contexts and a range of social harms from drinking, separately by gender. After accounting for social roles and binge drinking, gender-specific solitary drinking contexts ('home drinking' for men and 'daytime drinking' for women) were positively associated with marital problems and problems with other family members and friends. Conversely, 'social drinking' was not. Work-related drinking among men was associated with marital/intimate relationship problems and friendship problems. After accounting for mental health symptoms, women's home drinking was associated with marital problems. We found that experiences of social harms from drinking at 30years differ depending on the drinker's gender and context. Our findings suggest that risky contexts and associated harms are still significant among 30-year-old adults, indicating that a range of gender-specific drinking contexts should be represented in harm reduction campaigns. The current findings also highlight the need to consider gender to inform context-based harm reduction measures and to widen the age target for these beyond emerging adults.

Gender differences in social harms from drinking among young Australians: findings from the Mater University Study of Pregnancy and its Outcomes

Background: Despite the growing interest in investigating social harms from drinking, little is known about drinkers’ reports of these harms and their gender differences among Australian young adults at age 30. We aimed to examine gender differences of social harms from drinking as reported by drinkers.Methods: 2,200 young adults at age 30 with complete data on social harms from drinking were drawn from the 30-year follow-up of the Mater-University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy. Measures included percentages of 11 past-year drinkers’ self-reported social harms stratified by gender. Logistic regression was used to examine associations between gender and each social harm, accounting for relevant confounding.Results: More than one in five young adults (22%) reported at least one social harm in the past year. Among binge drinkers, 44% reported at least one social harm. After adjustments for social roles and binge drinking, we found no gender differences on several self-reported social harms: friendship problems, people criticizing drinking, non-marital family problems, employment problems, and alcohol-fuelled fights. However, men were more likely to report spousal threats to leave, drink-driving legal problems and financial problems.Conclusions: Our findings demonstrate that young adults are still vulnerable to risky drinking at age 30 and the social harm resulting from drinking. Thus, alcohol prevention campaigns should target this age group and include women in their focus. Strategies aiming to reduce alcohol-related harms, such as screening in clinical settings for risky drinking and alcohol-related harms, followed by motivational behavior interventions, could be beneficial among these vulnerable groups.

A Confucian Solution to the Fungibility Problem of Friendship: Friends like Family with Particularized Virtues

When asked why we are friends with someone, we often point to her good virtues as reasons. If these are the reasons, we have equal reasons to be friends with anyone with such virtues, and we can even replace current friends with anyone with the same or better virtues without substantive loss in friendship. However, it does not seem right that a particular friend is replaceable by just any other person with the same or better virtues. This is the fungibility problem of friendship. This essay outlines a Confucian response to the problem on the basis of the Confucian family-based conception of friendship and the Confucian understanding of particularized virtues. First, in the Confucian understanding, true friends are like family members, toward whom we have special obligations. Family members are nonfungible, and so are friends. Second, even though virtues are general traits that can be shared, the formations and practices of virtues are particularized. Confucian thinkers hold that each person configures virtues and exercises virtues in his or her own way depending on specific circumstances, and that persons with the same virtues may nevertheless possess them in varied fashions and exercise different shades of them in particular ways. Thus, persons of the same generic virtues will still retain their particularities as distinctive individuals. We become friends and remain friends with people in part because of their virtues practiced in ways that we appreciate. This notion of particularly exercised virtues makes it practically impossible for two persons to be identical in virtues. On such an understanding, virtuous friends are nevertheless unique and nonfungible.

Hospitable Witnessing: Using Autoethnography to Reflect Theologically on a Journey of Friendship and Mental Health Problems, written by Priscilla Sun Kyung Oh, (2018)

Hospitable Witnessing: Using Autoethnography to Reflect Theologically on a Journey of Friendship and Mental Health Problems, written by Priscilla Sun Kyung Oh, (2018)

Friendship and Carnal Love in Augustine’ Theology

The article deals with the problem of friendship and carnal love in Augustine’s theology. The Augustinian doctrine of caritative love becomes clearer when compared with evil lust, which can lead a person to the mortal sins of murder, and even to suicide. We revealed that views of blessed Augustine and blessed Jerome are strikingly different in their views on marriage and virginity. We made the conclusion that Augustine emphasizes the impossibility of allowing the apostles to lie about marriage and carnal love. Recognizing the falsity of the apostle Paul’s teachings on marriage is unacceptable to Christian consciousness and a godly attitude to the divine inspiration of Scripture.

Structural Relationships of Academic Stress, Conflictive Friendship and Psychological Anxiety and Problem Behaviors among Adolescents: Multiple Groups Analysis of Sex, School Grade

Structural Relationships of Academic Stress, Conflictive Friendship and Psychological Anxiety and Problem Behaviors among Adolescents: Multiple Groups Analysis of Sex, School Grade

Rural Telemental Health and Adolescents: Try a Little Shakespeare

ABSTRACTTwenty-five percent of Americans live in rural areas, almost all of which are designated as mental health service shortage areas. This designation represents serious problems for adolescents needing help with predictable developmental problems. The project described serves communities without mental health professionals; uses telemental health technology, co-located in rural primary care clinics; and emphasizes communication and coordination among professionals and clients. An example of addressing identity formation in an adolescent experiencing significant family and relational stress is explored, including the resolution of an ongoing friendship problem by using a school assignment, an analysis of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 48. Discussion includes safety, immediacy, and using bibliotherapy in telemental health with adolescents, as well as the appropriateness of telemental health for individual and parent-child sessions.

Arenas of comfort and conflict: peer relationship events and young people's educational attainment

ABSTRACTPrevious research suggests that developments in young people's peer relationships may either compound or alleviate the adverse impacts of other major life changes during adolescence. We explored this proposition with respect to young people's educational attainment upon leaving high school, using longitudinal data from a large cohort of Australian secondary school students (n = 1612) who have taken part in the Our Lives research study between the ages of 12/13 and 19/20 years. Our analysis focused on the role of peer relationship events such bullying, friendship problems, falling in love, and breaking up with someone. Bullying and romantic involvement were associated with lower odds of receiving a competitive tertiary entrance rank at the end of high school. However, close, resilient friendships – in which status and identity conflicts may be more easily tolerated and resolved – may help to offset the role of these other events. As well as reviewing the consequences of our findings for young people's educational and occupational trajectories in the longer-term, we highlight their implications for future research and policy in this area.

Negative Life Events and Coping Style among the Young Adults in a Highly Collective Community of Borneo

This qualitative study explored the differences in the interpretation of “negative life events” and the coping style among male and female young adults aged 21-25 in a highly collective community of Borneo. In-depth interviews were deployed, and pattern saturated at 5 males and 5 females. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the data. Finding shows that both gender, males and females, were most affected by self-image and identity crisis, implicating sensitivity for social acceptance/rejection, academic bullying, and friendship, family and and financial issues. Females were significantly affected by friendship problems and tended to deal with it using emotional-focused coping, such as, emotional release, whereas males reported rejection/one-sided love problems and tended to cope using action-focused coping style, such as, confronting, as well as action-focused release, such as, playing games. While the findings support the universal findings in the male-female differences in coping with negative events, this study found a unique difference in the coping style of the males to those of the lesser cohesive community - males in this community were found to be celebrating sharing of problems and emotional discomfort with close friends and family, as much as the females. This study suggests that careful considerations need to be given when generalizing the theory of emotional and social disconnectedness, in males in crisis in the highly cohesive community. Future research using mixed methodology can further explain the nature and generalizability of in-crisis males’ emotional and social connectedness in cohesive community, using a larger sample. Findings from this research would be useful to understand how our male and female youngsters in highly collective communities perceive life issues, and the pattern they choose in coping, and further assist in designing effective youth assistance and development programs.Keywords: negative life events; coping styles; gender; young adults; collective community