Looking to happy tomorrows with friends: Best and close friendships as they predict happiness

Demır, Melıkşah; Özdemir, Metin; Weitekamp, Lesley A.

doi:10.1007/s10902-006-9025-2

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“…The satisfaction with life scale was used to assess life satisfaction in the present study (Diener, Emmons, Larsen, & Griffin, 1985). This scale measures a global cognitive evaluation of one's life (Demir, Ozdemir, & Weitekamp, 2007). It has been used by a number of researchers to index life satisfaction and has shown good construct validity, reliability, and independence from momentary participant mood swings (Demir, 2008;Reich, Kessel, & Bernieri, 2013).…”

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“…This conception of subjective wellbeing includes life satisfaction and happiness and is represented in a lack of personal anxiety and apprehension (La Placa, McNaught, & Knight, 2013). Researchers often use the Satisfaction with Life scale to measure happiness and have shown correlations in participant responses to this scale and to the Subjective Happiness scale (Demir, 2008;Demir, Ozdemir, & Weitekamp, 2007).…”

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The relationship of hope to self-compassion, relational social skill, communication apprehension, and life satisfaction

Umphrey¹,

Sherblom²

2014

Intnl. J. Wellbeing

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Abstract:Hope is a habitual way of thinking about goals, the potential pathways of achieving them and the motivated agency for their accomplishment. Past research shows the beneficial behavioral outcomes of having hope, but little research investigates the relationship of hope to indicators of psychological, relational, communicative, or subjective wellbeing. The present study takes an interdisciplinary approach to test a model of the relationship between hope and wellbeing, as expressed through self-compassion, relational social skill, communication apprehension, and life satisfaction. Results show a pattern of relationships that suggest intervention programs designed to change thinking habits can encourage not only more hopeful thought but also enhanced self-compassion, greater skill in personal relationships, less communication apprehension, and heightened life satisfaction.

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Section: Subjective Wellbeing and Life Satisfactionmentioning

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The relationship of hope to self-compassion, relational social skill, communication apprehension, and life satisfaction

Umphrey¹,

Sherblom²

2014

Intnl. J. Wellbeing

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“…Social support can buffer the negative impact of stressful life events on psychological distress, depression, and anxiety as well as alleviate one's loneliness (e.g. [10,14] ). Perceived social support is a "relationship transaction" characterized by the subjective receipt of psychological resources intended to bolster one's ability to cope with stress [9,43] .…”

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Coping with loneliness: Caregivers of cancer patients

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Miller²,

Schick³

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Caregivers to cancer patients may be particularly vulnerable to the experience of loneliness. The current study compared the strategies used to cope with loneliness by those caring for hospitalized cancer patients who were receiving treatment, and caregivers of cancer patients in a hospice, who were on their death bed. Analyses revealed that there was no significant difference in coping with loneliness by caregivers of the ill and dying, but found a significant interaction effect within the caregivers to the ill group. Women attending to the ill scored higher on Acceptance and reflection, Self-development & understanding, and on the Social support network subscales than men did.

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“…A presença de um amigo próximo está também associada à percepção de felicidade e de bem-estar psicológico, mas o mais importante parece ser a qualidade desta amizade, e não a quantidade de amigos (Demir, Ozdemir, & Weitekamp, 2007;.…”

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A saúde do adolescente: O que se sabe e quais são os novos desafios

Matos

2012

Análise Psicológica

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Nos últimos trinta anos, a comunidade académica escreveu muito sobre os adolescentes, os seus problemas e a sua relação com os actores e contextos relevantes das suas vidas. A partir dos finais dos anos 1990, uma revolução social associada ao “boom” das novas tecnologias de informação e comunicação trouxe um novo desafio aos pais e aos profissionais de saúde e da educação, a quem no início os anos 1970 se pedia abertura, diálogo, interacção participada.

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Looking to happy tomorrows with friends: Best and close friendships as they predict happiness

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Cited by 120 publications

References 43 publications

The relationship of hope to self-compassion, relational social skill, communication apprehension, and life satisfaction

The relationship of hope to self-compassion, relational social skill, communication apprehension, and life satisfaction

Coping with loneliness: Caregivers of cancer patients

A saúde do adolescente: O que se sabe e quais são os novos desafios

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