The Relationship Between Friendship Quality and personalities in Adolescent Girls and Boys

Abstract

Friendship is an indispensable theme in social communication. Friendship quality plays an important role in shaping adolescents’ future lives. Especially, the influence on the shaping of adolescents’ personalities is an important aspect. The aim of this article is to explore the association between the friendship quality and teenagers’ personalities. This paper states the definition of the friendship quality and features of the adolescents. Also, it includes the effect of friendship quality on some personalities such as self-esteem, confidence and the big-five personalities. In addition, the paper presents some suggestions to schools and families in order to help adolescents to shape healthy personalities. The conclusion is that a higher quality of friendship can create a more positive personality on teenagers and effect their future careers. Understanding the relationship between friendship quality and personalities create the possibilities to help adolescents to be positive, confident and have advanced interpersonal skills, which are beneficial to their development. This paper can provide some reference for research in related fields. Future research should delve deeper into the relationship between the quality of friendship and the shaping of personalities of adolescents, taking into account gender differences.