2008 Volume 16 Issue 2 Pages 247-249
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between affective experience and friendship motivation, at the same time categorizing friendship events. Participants were 132 university and junior college students. Ten categories of friendship events were found, and results showed that strain and deterioration of relationship predicted depression/anxiety and hostility, and change of impression led to boredom. Hostility and boredom in turn had a negative correlation with intrinsic motivation. The importance of diversity in friendship events in examining the relationship between affective experience and motivation was discussed.
