Friendship Maintenance Mediates the Relationship Between Compassion for Others and Happiness
Displaying compassion for others (CFO) and utilizing friendshipmaintenance (FM) behaviors are positively associated with happiness.
Two studies investigated FM as a mediator of the relationship between CFO and happiness (Study 1: N = 273; Study 2: N = 368). FM
mediated the CFO-Happiness relationship in both studies regardless of the way happiness was measured. Although women had higher
scores on both CFO and FM, the model was supported for both genders. The implications of the findings are discussed and suggestions
for future research are provided.
- Award ID's:
- 1659888
- Publication Date:
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10055620
- Journal Name:
- Current Psychology
- ISSN:
- 1046-1310
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
- Free Publicly Accessible Full Text
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Accepted Manuscript1.0
- Publisher's Version of Record
- 10.1007/s12144-017-9779-1
