Family Well-being and Friendship Relations. A Study with Adolescents in the School Context

• Main Authors: Ramón Llopis Goig, David Llopis Goig
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de Navarra 2004-10-01
• Series: Estudios sobre Educación
• Subjects: Satisfacción familiar; Adolescentes; Relaciones de amistad; Estatus sociométrico
• Online Access: https://www.unav.edu/publicaciones/revistas/index.php/estudios-sobre-educacion/article/view/25608

The aim of this article is to asses the relation between family climate and friendship relations in the classroom in a sample of teenagers. A battery of items was applied from a standardised instrument (TAMAI) and a complete version of the sociometric test to a sample of 44 teenagers, students from the fourth year of Obligatory Secondary Education. The study shows that the teenagers satisfied with their family climate are more popular, receive more friendly elections, have a larger social and positive expansivety, have more mutualfriendship elections, have a larger affective link with his group of friends and have a better sociometric status