Persahabatan merespon tanda-tanda zaman (analisis historiografis duc in altum kolaborasi stft widya sasana)

This article focuses on the theme of collaboration and friendship lived and experienced in Widya Sasana School of Philosophy and Theology to respond the challenges of the times. The methodology applied is analysis of historical moments without going into the details of the events based on the original documents of foundation of the campus. The goal of study is to analize how friendship and collaboration have shaped and built up this campus. STFT Widya Sasana is metaphorically like a ship that has to continue to sail across the ocean of educational challenges from time to time. This historiographical analysis study found that true friendship needs to prioritize missionary, collaborative, dialogical, accountable and sustainable characters for the priestly education in such a way that the alumni be able to respond to the challenges of the times.

Gereja Sebagai Komunitas Persahabatan

Friendship is not something new in human life. It has existed since man existed in the world with others. Awareness of self and other creations encourages man to build friendship. Many philosophers and theologians have had ideas about the meaning of friendship. With friendship, our life becomes meaningful. The Scriptures also give the meaning of true friendship to human being. Therefore, friendship is a very essential thing in human life. True friendship needs to be based on love, trust, sincerity, sacrifice, kindness, and so on. Friendship itself must be born from the soul. A soul that is ready to give the best for friends. The friendships built by people are often fragile and vulnerable to break up. True friendship will not be eroded by time and distance. It will last forever when a soul is united in it. The Church is a community built by Jesus. The Church is born of friendship. Jesus gathers His friends at one Eucharistic table.

Loving Neighbor as Self: Translating the Study Abroad Experience into Intercultural Friendships on the Home Campus

Universities focus significant attention on internationalization to prepare empathyglobally minded graduates by engaging students in study abroad programs and expanding international student enrollment. However, scholarship has not yet considered the role returned study abroad students play in meeting friendship needs of international students. This research aimed to determine if such experiences impact friendships between participants and internationals. Four basic themes emerged: isolated application of intercultural competencies, differences in empathy experiences, friendships between study abroad and international students, and institutional contributions. Key findings revealed institutions do not teach study abroad students to utilize their experience in fostering empathetic friendships withinternational students and should consider how the experience can more effectively impact intercultural friendships rather than focusing solely on domestic students’ reverse culture shock.

Living with Difference: Exploring the Social Self of Adolescents with Chronic Pain

BACKGROUND: Chronic pain negatively affects an adolescent’s life; however, little is known about the social impact of chronic pain for adolescents. More is known about the general peer relationships of adolescents with chronic pain than their close friendships. Close friendships begin to take on more importance during adolescence as these relationships facilitate the development of an adolescent’s sense of personal identity and increasing independence from family influences. Thus, chronic pain may create friendship challenges for adolescents beyond those typically experienced during this developmental trajectory, which may negatively impact their abilities to secure social support.OBJECTIVES: To better understand the challenges adolescents with chronic pain face with regard to their friendships.METHODS: An interpretative phenomenological study using individual interviews was conducted.RESULTS: Two themes emerged. ‘Rethinking the self with pain’ describes the intrusive nature of chronic pain, challenging the participants to rethink the way they view themselves and their place within their social network. ‘Rethinking friendships’ describes the interpretation of their friends’ reactions to their chronic pain condition, which led to these adolescents spending more time by themselves, and feeling misunderstood and unsupported.CONCLUSIONS: The impact of chronic pain on the adolescent as an individual as well as the responses of close friends and others within their social network resulted in the development of new friendship needs. However, the adolescents were not always able to secure these new friendship needs. Their experiences suggest factors within friendships that may be ameliorated by interventions, thus maintaining and strengthening their close friendships.

Personality and gender differences in friendship needs and experiences in preadolescence and young adulthood

Personality and gender differences in close same-sex friendship needs and experiences were investigated in two samples. Participants were 312 university students (217 women, M age 1/4 19.5) and 491 preadolescents (269 girls, M age 1/4 11.87). Participants completed several questionnaires yielding scores for communion and agency (personality), communal and agentic friendship needs, actual communal and agentic provisions of a best friendship, and affective functioning (satisfaction with the best friendship, loneliness). Findings revealed that close friendship serves both communal (connection) and agentic (social prominence) needs. Agency and/or communion predicted friendship needs and experiences and affective correlates of failure to meet friendship needs (friendship satisfaction, loneliness). Thus, friendship is not a homogeneous experience, but is shaped by the dispositions of the individuals who comprise it. Gender differences emerged in communal and agentic friendship needs and experiences; however, consensus among male and female participants regarding the functions of close friendship fails to support strong claims regarding gender-differentiated “worlds.”