Research On Costs And Rewards Impact College Students Friendship

With the guidance of social exchange theory, the paper will explore the relationship of modern college students' friendship. Friendship is a kind of special dynamic interpersonal relationship, this paper tightly grasp it , and will make a research about friendship from the dynamic exchange perspective of costs and rewards.We edit items based on things that can be exchanged in interpersonal interactions as love, money, status, information, goods and service. With the method of the Exploratoty Factor Analysis, all the items can be categorized into three factors, which called care-backup-respect, money and goods, attitude-action. The α reliability of factors and the whole scale are high.After the stepwise regression of the three factors including costs, rewards and profit to the quality of friendship, we concluded that:1, costs may better prejudge the quality of friendship. The costs of money and goods can prejudge interaction anticipation, trust, closeness; the costs of care-backup-respect can prejudge interaction anticipation, trust; the costs of attitude-action can prejudge closeness.2 , Rewards can prejudge the quality of friendship. The rewards of attitude-action can prejudge the three sides of friendship; the rewards of care-backup-respect can prejudge closeness; the rewards of money and goods have no impact on the quality of friendship.3, Profit has influence on the friendship relationship, but, the power is low. The profit of care-backup-respect has impact on closeness; the profit of attitude-action has impact on affiliation anticipation, trust; the profit of money and goods has no impact on friendship.