Friendship and Happiness in Latin America: A Review

Garcia, Agnaldo; Pereira, Fábio Nogueira; Macedo, Maria Daniela Corrêa de

doi:10.1007/978-94-017-9603-3_13

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“…Some suggest there are five main dimensions of friendships (closeness, companionship, conflict, help, and security), which are critical indicators of friendship importance from adolescence to emerging adulthood (Ponti, Guarnieri, Smorti, & Tani, 2010). Friendships have been shown to be important to emerging adults across cultures, including populations such as the United States, Jordan (Brannan et al, 2013), Asia (Demir, Jaafar, Bilyk, & Mohd Ariff, 2012), Latin America (Garcia, Pereira, & de Macedo, 2015), and among the Dine, a Native American tribe (Willeto, 2015). Therefore, friendships contribute to flourishing for a wide variety of emerging adults.…”

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Positive Relationships as an Indicator of Flourishing During Emerging Adulthood

Padilla‐Walker¹,

Memmott‐Elison²,

Nelson³

2017

Oxford Scholarship Online

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In this chapter we argue that positive development takes place within the context of relationships, and we review research on a number of relationships that emerging adults may have during this time period. This chapter explores theories of how and why relationships may be influential, and it reviews research on the role that relationships with members of one’s family of origin (parents, grandparents, and siblings) and with peers (friends, romantic partners, and spouses) play in flourishing during emerging adulthood. The way in which young people navigate these changing relationships, and the new patterning of relationships that are formed, may play important roles in the extent to which young people flourish during the third decade of life.

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Section: Positive Development During Emerging Adulthood 226mentioning

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Positive Relationships as an Indicator of Flourishing During Emerging Adulthood

Padilla‐Walker¹,

Memmott‐Elison²,

Nelson³

2017

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“…Friendship and happiness or subjective well-being are positively related, also in Latin American countries [1,2]. Although studies on friendships in different contexts in Latin America are not frequent, friendship is not only related to individual happiness and subjective well-being, but it is fundamental for social and cultural integration of internal migrants as well as international migrants, besides acting as integration factor in local communities in Latin America [3][4][5][6].…”

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Friendships of Latin American Students in Brazil: From Individual Well-Being to an International Community

2018

IJP

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The purpose of this paper was to describe the composition of the friends’ networks, the formation of friendships and the role of friends of students from other Latin American countries in Brazil. A hundred students from 14 countries, including Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Paraguay, Mexico, Venezuela, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Chile, Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Costa Rica and Uruguay answered a questionnaire about their friendships. In total, 768 friends were mentioned, 469 of the same nationality of the student, 188 Brazilians and 111 of other nationalities. Compatriots living in their country of origin was the largest group (331), followed by Brazilians living in Brazil (182), compatriots in Brazil (85), and other foreigners in Brazil (80). Most of the students reported friendship with at least one Brazilian in the destination country (73%) and 97% sought to make friends in the destination country, developing friendships with Brazilians (89%), people from other countries (78%) and compatriots in Brazil (63%). The main difficulties in developing friendships with Brazilians were language (37%) and cultural differences (27%). The support received from the friends was recognized by 96% of the students and having friends in the destination country was considered important or very important by 95% of the participants. It can be concluded that these students present a diversified friends’ network in terms of nationality and place of residence. In Brazil, they cited more Brazilian friends than compatriots and other foreigners, indicating that the concept of homophilia is not enough to explain the composition of the friends’ network.

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