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Attachment Orientations And Relationship Maintenance In College Friendships, Samuel Chung
Attachment Orientations And Relationship Maintenance In College Friendships, Samuel Chung
Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Friendships are a ready source of social support and have been shown to be important to individuals' well-being, especially among young adults. Evidence suggests that the quality of students' friendships are associated with transition into college life. Students with high friendship quality report less anxiety and depression and also show better academic performance. This suggests that proper maintenance of friendships is important to function well and succeed in college. However, maintenance behaviors in friendships remain largely unexamined. The present thesis examines maintenance behaviors in friendships through an attachment theory perspective.
The Developmental Interplay Of Personality And Relationship Quality In Young Adulthood, Kelci Harris
The Developmental Interplay Of Personality And Relationship Quality In Young Adulthood, Kelci Harris
Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations
I used the framework of the personality-relationship transaction to examine the co-development of personality and relationship quality during college in three different relationship contexts: an aggregate of friends, romantic partner dyads, and friend dyads. I treat the personality-relationship transaction as a dyadic process, rather than an ego-centric one, by including friends’ and romantic partners’ reports of personality and relationship quality. I created a multivariate latent growth curve model version of the Actor Partner Interdependence Model to test how personality and relationship quality co-developed. Initial correlations between personality and relationship quality reflect what is seen in previous work; self-reported extraversion, agreeableness, …