| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 心理與諮商學系碩士班 === 101 === Friendship Quality, Peer Acceptance and Psychological Well-being of High School Students
Abstract
The relationship between adolescents and their peers can strongly impact their own psychological well-being. This study investigates the peer relationships of late adolescence (high school students) from two dimensions. One is the “friendship quality”, which is estimated by adolescents themselves. The other is “peer acceptance”, which is measured by all the other classmates. The purpose of this study is to understand the impact of high school students’ peer acceptance on psychological well-being. Also, in this study we examine whether friendship quality can modulate the effect of peer acceptance on the psychological well-being.
This study is based on the database “Luminous Shine and Dark Shadow: The Duality of Friendship Network in Late Adolescence” established by Chyi-In Wu, the research fellow in Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica. The sample consists of 309 (176 males, 133 females) high school students in southern Taiwan. Study results show that: (1) Peer acceptance can positively influence the psychological well-being of high school students significantly. (2) Friendship quality can modulate the relationship between peer acceptance and psychological well-being. The impact of peer acceptance on psychological well-being can be reduced if the support of friends was high, the closeness with friends was low, and the conflict with friends was high. On the contrary, low degree of support, high degree of closeness, and low degree of conflict with friends will increase the impact of peer acceptance on psychological well-being. (3) High degree of conflict with friends has significant negative impact on high school students’ psychological well-being.
The study results could serve as references for the practitioners, to help adolescents get along with their peers, and to improve their friendship quality, for promoting adolescents’ well-being.
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