Same-Gender Friendship Maintenance and Satisfaction: An Analysis of Gifted and General Students in Junior High School

• Main Authors: Chang-Chien, Yun-San, 張簡筠珊
• Other Authors: Chang, Ching-Ching
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/77f9t4

碩士 === 國立彰化師範大學 === 特殊教育學系 === 107 === The purpose of this study was to explore what junior high school students with giftedness would do to maintain same-gender friendship and how satisfied they were with that friendship. By conducting a survey research, this study recruited 465 gifted students and 533 regular students to complete a self-made questionnaire, the Friendship Maintenance and Satisfaction Scale. Data were further analyzed with three-way ANOVA, product-moment correlation, and simultaneous regression. Major findings were as follows: (a) compared to regular students, gifted students were more likely to nominate their same-age gifted peers as friends; (b) gifted students exhibited less considerate behaviors and showed less open behaviors to casual friends when compared to regular students; (c) regardless of gender, the closer junior high school students were with friends, the more friendship maintenance behaviors they exhibited and the higher friendship satisfaction they perceived; (d) regardless of friendship status, female students perceived higher friendship satisfaction, and showed more support, affirmative, and consideration in friendship maintenance; (e) female students exhibited more open and interactive behaviors to best and close friends, but there are no differences between female and male students in those behaviors toward casual friends; (f) the degree of friendship satisfaction could be predicted by the frequencies of friendship maintenance behaviors junior high school students exhibited, especially when showing their consideration, support and affirmative in friendship maintenance. Based on the findings, it suggested that educators should emphasize more on how to make gifted students more open and considerate to closer friends in order to increase their same-gender friendship satisfaction.