The Relationship Between Friendship Quality And Similarity Of Friend Dyads’ Attribution Style Among Senior High School Students

This study explores influences of the best friends’ attribution character and friendshipquality to subjects’ attribution style.189senior high school students were asked to choosetheir best friend, assessed their friendship quality (Friendship Quality Questionnaire, FQQ)and attribution style (MMCS). This study use multivariate variance analysis、Independentt—test and regression analysis, then draw conclusions below:1. Significant sex difference was found for friendship quality, girls got higher scores in allinstances than boys. Gender different was not significant.2. The senior high school students tend to attribute performances to internal causes. But italso depends on different occasion: for study performances, they prefer to have externalattribution but tend to attribute internal causes for interpersonal performances.3. Teenagers and their friends were more similar to one another than no friend dyads instudy performances attribution, and the different was significant. But not to interpersonalrelationship performances.4. The friendship quality can predict attribution style in a certain extent. Students who havemore positive friendship quality tend to have more determined explanatory style andprone to attributed failure to external causes for study performances. While forinterpersonal attribution they prefer to have external attribution no matter success orfailure.5. The friendship quality can margin the effect of friends’ attribution style to target subject.That is, when the friendship quality is more positive, the attribution style between frienddyads is more similar.