Friendship Network Satisfaction: A multifaceted construct scored as a unidimensional scale.

ABSTRACT: Although satisfying friendships are crucial for well-being throughout adulthood, measures of friendship satisfaction have been limited by: (1) item content relevant to children only, (2) a focus on single relationships rather than the friendship network, and (3) disagreement about the number of dimensions necessary to capture the construct. To overcome these limitations, we assembled an item pool from a number of existing measures, created additional items drawn from research on friendships, and then examined the structure and psychometric properties of those items in two online surveys of over 2000 respondents each. Factor analyses consistently identified two correlated factors-closeness and socializing-but bi-factor modeling revealed that scores on both subscales load strongly on a gener

SUBMITTER: Kaufman VA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10723113 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature