The First Friendship Families

V2me: Evaluating the first steps in mobile friendship coaching

Life events, such as retirement or being widowed, can change the social circle of older people considerably. It may be difficult to find new social contacts when one has never got used to, or perhaps even never learnt, to seek and maintain those contacts. Loneliness has many negative effects for well-being, including depression and even cardiovascular disease. The Ambient Assisted Living Joint ...

First : Poor Psychological Well - Being or Decreased Friendship Activity ?

Research has shown there is a positive relationship between friendship activity and psychological well-being. The common interpretation of this correlation is that an increase in friendship activity improves psychological well-being. This article shows any of the following three interpretations are more plausible: (1) good psychological well-being causes an increase in friendship activity, (2) ...

A Probe into the Concept of Friendship in the Qur’ān

The topic of human relationships—be they positive and sympathetic, or negative and hostile—receives a great amount of attention in the Qur’ān. Human beings need to be aware of both their friends and their enemies in order to learn how to engage with both groups, how to make additional friends and defend themselves from harm caused by enemies, and, if possible, turn these enemies into friends. T...

The Association between Friendship Companionship and Friendship Temporality: the Moderating Roles of Friendship Context and Ethnicity

‘ Friendship ’ for fitness or ‘ friendship ’ for friendship ’ s sake ?

Correspondence: P. Stopka, Department of Zoology, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, U.K. (email: [email protected]). L. Barrett is at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, U.K. Hemelrijk et al. (1999), using data from a captive chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes, colony, state that there is no evidence to suggest that individuals trade ‘social services’...