Friendships Quality and Classmates Support: How to Influence the Well―Being of Adolescents
[a]PhD,FCM, NOVA University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
[b]Professor of Health Psychology, FMH, University of Lisbon, CMDT/UNL, Lisbon, Portugal.
[c]PhD, FMH/ of Lisbon, CMDT/UNL, Lisbon, Portugal.
[d]FMH/ of Lisbon, CMDT/UNL, Lisbon, Portugal.
[e]FMH/ of Lisbon, CMDT/UNL, Lisbon, Portugal.
*Corresponding author.
Received 2 May 2014; accepted 15 August 2014
Published online 27 September 2014
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to analyze the influence of quality friendship and classmates support on risk behaviour and well-being of Portuguese adolescents.
The sample posed by individuals that participated in the study in continental Portugal, integrating the European study HBSC ? Health Behaviour in School ? aged Children. The study included a total of 4877 students from the 6th, 8th and 10th grades from Portuguese public schools, with an
average age of 14 years.
The results revealed the trend towards classmates’ more protection for involvement in risky behaviour, than to have high quality friends. The quality of es as the protector factor to other areas just as important, as happiness, life satisfaction and quality of life.
Key words: Friendships quality; Classmates support; Adolescents; Risk behaviour; Well-being
Tomé, G., de Matos, M. G., Camacho, I., Sim?es, C., & Diniz, J. A. (2014). Friendships Quality and Classmates Support: How to Influence the Well-Being of Adolescents. Higher Education of Social Science, 7(2), -0. Available from: URL:
DOI: http://dx./
INTRODUCTION
Friendship requires spending some time with others in activities, talking about varied subjects, providing social support and sharing information. Whatever type of activity, is important to be among friends (Qualter & Munn, 2005), either in occasional large groups (with circumst
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