The current study was designed to examine the mediating role of perceived social support between friendship quality and psychological well-being. There were 529 participants in the study (309 girls and 220 boys), adolescents who are in the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grades of six state high schools from the city of Uşak, Turkey. Their ages were between 14 and 19. These participants were assessed using the Friendship Qualities Scale and Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) techniques were used for assessing the mediation model. The results showed that a social support-family fully mediated the relationship between the quality of companionship-friendship, the quality of conflict-friendship, and psychological well-being; a social support-special person fully mediated the relationship between companionship and psychological well-being; and social support-friends fully mediated the relationship between security (friendship quality subscale) and psychological well-being.

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The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of a group counselling programme on happiness, life satisfaction and positive-negative affect of guidance and psychological counselling department students. The group members consisted of 28 (18 females, 10 males). Group counselling programme was applied once a week for 8 weeks. Quantitative analysis of the study was performed using Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test and qualitative analysis was performed by content analysis of the focus group interviews and student evaluations reports. Quantitative analysis results showed that psychological group counselling enhances the positive emotions, happiness and life satisfaction levels of the students, while it did not have any effect on the negative emotions. Qualitative analysis results demonstrated that students had both personal and professional gains in this process.

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