he Relationship Among Adolescents’Self-esteem, Emotional Intelligence and Friendship Quality (Preprint)
Authors: Ye Sr Wei 
Published: July 2022

BACKGROUND

Individuals will have a need for interpersonal intimacy during their adolescence. This need for intimacy depends on the sensitivity and mutual satisfaction of the needs of friends to meet each other. If teenagers lack the experience of interaction with close friends, it is easy to cause obstacles in life, personality and socialization ability in the future. Some scholars believe that individuals with high-quality friendship relations are easier to cooperate with others and have more social behavior characteristics than those with low-quality friendship relations, and have confirmed that there is a significant positive correlation between friendship quality and self-esteem1. Some literatures also further discussed the positive correlation between individual self-esteem and peer relationship2, Moreover, The concept of youth friendship will develop from concrete to abstract with age, and the importance of friendship to young people also increases with age3. Most studies agree that adolescents' self-esteem has a positive impact on their intimate friendship with their friends4.But some studies think that the relationship between friendship intimacy and self-esteem is weak5. Therefore, the correlation between self-esteem and friendship quality is worthy of further discussion. Although there are few literature on the relationship between emotional intelligence and friendship quality, there are still traces to be found. If adolescents can perceive the feelings and beliefs of others and adjust their own emotions in the interpersonal communication experience, it is helpful to the formation of friendship relations6. With the growth of age, friendship is more and more important for teenagers' emotional adaptation. Those who have better emotions are less likely to feel lonely. If individuals can not effectively control their own emotions or use emotion regulation strategies, they will fall into interpersonal difficulties and be difficult to establish close friendship with others7. In the research on children's peer relationship and emotional ability, it is also found that the higher children's cognitive ability and ability to understand multiple emotions, the better their interpersonal relationship8.As the individual，s emotion regulation strategies and expressions change dynamically with age, timely research on the relationship between adolescents，emotional intelligence and friendship quality is also a topic worthy of in-depth discussion.

OBJECTIVE

Introduction: The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship among self-esteem, emotional intelligence and friendship quality of adolescents.

METHODS

Methods：Data collection and analysis were conducted between March 12 and May 14, 2021. a total of 333 adolescents were investigated with the help of a questionnaire and the qualitative data of interviews were used to demonstrate the results. The data were analyzed by exploratory analysis and typical correlation analysis.

RESULTS

Results：Self-esteem can explain 21.3% of the variance of friendship quality. All levels of self-esteem are positively correlated with company help, intimate communication, positive value, trust and respect in friendship quality, but negatively correlated with conflict and betrayal in friendship quality. Emotional intelligence can explain 36.4% of the variance of friendship quality, and all levels of emotional intelligence are positively related to the level of companionship, intimate communication, positive value, trust and respect in friendship quality, but negatively related to the level of conflict and betrayal in friendship quality.

CONCLUSIONS

Conclusions：There is a typical relationship among self-esteem, emotional intelligence and friendship quality, and interpersonal self-esteem, trust and respect, companionship and help, and intimate communication are the main explanatory factors. Emotional adjustment, cognitive reappraisal, emotional control and company help, trust and respect, positive value, intimate communication are the main explanatory factors.

CLINICALTRIAL

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