caa a22 4500 463217969 CHVBK 20180405153203.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10902-006-9012-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10902-006-9012-7 I am so Happy 'Cause Today I Found My Friend: Friendship and Personality as Predictors of Happiness [Elektronische Daten] [Melıkşah Demır, Lesley Weitekamp] Relying on the theoretical model of [Lyubomirsky etal. 2005, Review of General Psychology, 9, pp. 111-131], the present study investigated the relationship between personality, number of friends, best friendship quality and happiness among 423 young adults (n=300 women). The main interest was to examine whether friendship contributed to happiness while controlling for personality. Friendship variables accounted for 58% of the variance in happiness. Results revealed that friendship quality predicted happiness above and beyond the influence of personality and number of friends, but friendship conflict was not a significant predictor. Additional analyses revealed that the companionship and self-validation features of friendship quality were predictive of happiness while controlling for gender and personality. The findings were discussed in the light of theory and empirical research and suggestions were made for future research. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2006 companionship nationallicence friendship nationallicence happiness nationallicence personality nationallicence self-validation nationallicence Demır Melıkşah Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, 48201, Detroit, MI, USA aut Weitekamp Lesley Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, 48201, Detroit, MI, USA aut Journal of Happiness Studies Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/2(2007-06-01), 181-211 1389-4978 8:2<181 2007 8 10902 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-006-9012-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-006-9012-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Demır Melıkşah Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, 48201, Detroit, MI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Weitekamp Lesley Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, 48201, Detroit, MI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Happiness Studies Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/2(2007-06-01), 181-211 1389-4978 8:2<181 2007 8 10902 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer