| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 教育研究所 === 101 === The purposes of this study were to: 1) investigate the effects of leisure activity similarity, personality similarity, and value similarity on friendship quality of adolescents with their best friends, and 2) analyze whether such effects vary by gender and grade. Three hundreds and twenty-two adolescents and their same-sex best friend in the 6th, 8th, and 10th grade in participanted in this study. The Friendship Quality Scale, the Preference of Leisure Activity Questionnaire, the Adolescent Personal Style Inventory and the Value Concept Inventory were administered to the participants in regular classroom settings. Two-way ANOVA, structural equation modeling, and multiple-group comparison were used to analyze the data.
The main findings of the study were as follows:
1. Girls rather than boys from the 6th grade are more similar to their best friend in interpersonal, affectional and moral values, 6th grade girls were more similar to their friend in moral values than 8th and 10th grade girls.
2. There is no significant effect of leisure activity similarity on friendship quality of the same-sex best friends.
3. The same-sex best friends with high personality similarity in extraversion tend to have a better friendship quality.
4. The same-sex best friends with high similarity in affectional and moral values tend to have a higher friendship quality.
5. Of the similarity in leisure activity, personality and values, value similarity significantly predicted adolescent friendship quality.
6. The effects of gender and grade are not significant on the relationships among leisure activity similarity, personality similarity, value similarity and friendship quality.
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