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Learning Objective: 7-3: Identify friendship maintenance behaviors and outcomes.

Akin, U., Akin, A., & Ugur, E. (2016). Mediating Role of Mindfulness on the Associations of Friendship Quality and Subjective Vitality. Psychological Reports, 119(2), 516-526. doi:10.1177/0033294116661273

Description: This research investigated the mediator role of mindfulness on the relationship between friendship quality and subjective vitality. Participants were 273 university students (M age = 21 years, SD = 1.1) who completed a questionnaire package that included the Friendship Quality Scale, the Cognitive and Affective Mindfulness Scale, and the Subjective Vitality Scale. Both mindfulness and subjective vitality were correlated positively with friendship quality and subjective vitality was correlated positively with mindfulness. Mindfulness mediated the relationship between friendship quality and subjective vitality. Together, the findings illuminate the importance of friendship quality in psychological and cognitive adjustment.

Questions to Consider:

1. Why is mindfulness important for friendship quality and subjective vitality?
    
2. Which of the following surveys/inventories was used in this study?
   
   1. Cognitive and Affective Mindfulness Scale-revised (Correct answer)
   2. Intrinsic/Extrinsic Motivation Scale
   3. Social Loneliness Inventory
   4. Beck’s Depression Scale
       
3. Which of the following was the main finding for this research study?
   
   1. Friendship quality mediated the relationship between subjective vitality and mindfulness.
   2. Mindfulness mediated the relationship between friendship quality and subjective vitality. (Correct answer)
   3. Subjective vitality mediated the relationship between friendship quality and mindfulness.
   4. None of the above.