Original scientific paper
Factor Structure of Rules in Friendship Relationships and Their Relations with Personality Traits
Goran BUBAŠ
Denis BRATKO
Abstract
Positive friendship relationships are connected to the
psychological well-being and social adjustment of an individual.
Relationship quality in friendships is influenced by the rules that
participants use in the interaction with their partners. This paper
presents the research of the factor structure of rules in friendship
relationships. Based on the previous research of other authors
and the process of collecting rules that young adults use in their
friendship relationships, the IR-1 questionnaire with 141
statements/rules was developed and then applied on subjects
(N=501) in the age of early adulthood. Factor analysis revealed
five dimensions of rules in friendship relationships that were
labeled benevolence, sociability, appropriateness, self-control,
and self-directedness. These dimensions of interpersonal rules
were compared with the results of research of other authors in
the field of friendship relationships and social competence. The
NEO PI-R inventory that measures the personality dimensions
according to the five-factor model of personality was also
applied on a smaller subset of subjects (N=114). Many
statistically significant correlations were uncovered between the
dimensions of interpersonal rules, on the one side, and the
personality dimensions and their facets, on the other side, and
most of them were related to extraversion and agreeableness.
Keywords
friendship relationships; interpersonal rules; factor analysis; five-factor model of personality
Hrčak ID:
19255
URI
Publication date:
31.12.2007.
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