Effect of affective traits on adolescent's friendship

本研究考察了情感特质对青少年友谊的影响。一系列研究结果表明：(1)通过对青少年对模糊友谊图形的解读分析，影响其解读的情感特质主要是消极情感特质，而不是积极情感特质；(2)消极情感特质较低的青少年倾向于积极解读，从而能够为朋友自己改变情境，而消极情感特质较高的青少年倾向于表现出受害者心态的解读。这些结果表明，情感特征对友谊情境的理解有很强的影响，尤其是消极情感的青少年更倾向于将与友谊相关的事件视为受害者心态，并可能使友谊难以维持。

This research project examines the effect of affective traits on adolescent's friendship. It was shown by a series of researches that (1) based on the analysis of the adolescents' interpretation of ambiguous friendship figures, the affective traits which have effects on interpretation of figures would be negative affective traits rather than positive ones, (2) adolescents with lower negative affective traits tend to have positive interpretation so as to be capable of changing situations by themselves for friends, while those adolescents with higher negative affective traits tend to show the interpretation of victim mindset. These results suggest that affective traits would have a strong effect on interpretation of friendship situations, and adolescents especially with negative affection tend to take friendship-related events as victim mindset, and possibly to make it difficult to maintain friendship.