caa a22 4500 463217942 CHVBK 20180405153203.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10902-006-9025-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10902-006-9025-2 Looking to happy tomorrows with friends: Best and close friendships as they predict happiness [Elektronische Daten] [Melikşah Demir, Metin Özdemir, Lesley Weitekamp] Friendships are an important source of happiness. The present study (n=280) investigated the role of friendship quality and conflict in happiness and examined the feature of friendship that best predicted happiness. Information was gathered about the quality and conflict of the best, first and second close friendships of the individual. Results revealed that best friendship quality was the only significant predictor of happiness; however, individuals were happier when they experienced high quality first close friendships in conjunction with a high quality best friendship. Results also revealed that first close friendship quality buffered the negative impact of first close friendship conflict. The companionship feature of the best and first close friendship appeared as the strongest predictor of happiness. Findings were discussed in light of the literature and suggestions for future research were made. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2006 best friendship nationallicence buffering effect nationallicence close friendship nationallicence companionship nationallicence happiness nationallicence Demir Melikşah Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, 5057 Woodward Ave, 7th Floor, 48201, Detroit, MI, USA aut Özdemir Metin Department of Psychology, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA aut Weitekamp Lesley Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, 5057 Woodward Ave, 7th Floor, 48201, Detroit, MI, USA aut Journal of Happiness Studies Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/2(2007-06-01), 243-271 1389-4978 8:2<243 2007 8 10902 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-006-9025-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-006-9025-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Demir Melikşah Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, 5057 Woodward Ave, 7th Floor, 48201, Detroit, MI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Özdemir Metin Department of Psychology, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Weitekamp Lesley Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, 5057 Woodward Ave, 7th Floor, 48201, Detroit, MI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Happiness Studies Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/2(2007-06-01), 243-271 1389-4978 8:2<243 2007 8 10902 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer