Friendship, perceived mattering and wellbeing among college students

Abstract

The aim of the study was to explore the relationship between Friendships Quality, Perceived mattering and well-being among college students. A sample of 400 students was selected belonging to different colleges in Rawalpindi and Is lamabad. Sample consists of male and female students. Their ages range from 15 to 25. Friendship Quality Scale (Parker & Asher, 1993), Mattering to others Scale (Marshall, 1998), and Wellbeing Scale (Tennant et aI., 2007) were used to measure the research variables. It was hypothesized that friendship quality, will be positively related to perceived mattering and we llb ei!1~ .. The results indicated that Friendship quality is positively related to perceived mattering and wellbeing. It was also hypothesized that perceived Mattering wi ll be positively re lated to Well-being. The results show that they are positively related to each other. It was also hypothesized that friendship wi ll mediate the relationship between Perceived Mattering and Wellbeing. Thus the correlations were moderate in strength. The result indicates that the mediation is statistically significant. Furthermore, the study also explored to find out the association of se lected correlates of friendship, time spent with friends, no of close friends and demographic variab les, differences and other areas of research.