The Relationship Between Adolescents' Friendship And Subjective Well-being

Researches on children's friendship mainly included conception of friendship and friendship behavior. Great emphasis has been put on the function of children's friendship. Researchers tried to indicate the function of children's friendship through series of researches on the correlation between friendship and relative factors. There were a lot of researches in the field of subjective well-being. However, most of them were focused on the field of adults' subjective well-being, few on adolescents' subjective well-being.The purpose of this study is to indicate the development of adolescents' perception of friendship, the development of adolescents' friendship behavior, adolescents' subjective well-being, as well as the relationship between friendship behavior and adolescents' subjective well-being.; What's more, the study also tries to give suggestions on school education, so as to improve the level of adolescents' subjective well-being.The results of this study are the followings.1) In adolescents' perception of friendship, the important features of friendship are successively: sharing and communication, identification and support, helping each other, conflict and treason, conflict solving.2) Adolescents' perceptions of friendship differ among school grades; Adolescents' perceptions of friendship include both abstract features and concrete features.3) The abstract features of adolescents' friendship behavior experience steady development in junior school and high school. There are more concrete features of friendship behavior among students in junior school than in high school.4) The level of adolescents' subjective well-being is generally high.5) Levels of adolescents' subjective well-being differ among school grades; Generally, the level of subjective well-being among students in junior school is higher than that of students in high school.6) There is a moderate correlation between adolescents' friendship behavior and subjective well-being; Friendship behavior is a predictor of adolescents' subjective well-being.