HHHC 9301 KEMAHIRAN PENGURUSAN MAKLUMAT DAN

PEMBELAJARAN SEPANJANG HAYAT

AZZA SHAFIQAH BINTI IZAMA143058

TYPE OF ACTIVITY CHOSEN

OGo through your junior high/high school book and contact a friend you haven’t contacted in a long time.

WHY DID I CHOOSE THIS ACTIVITY?

O Friend is like our unbiological sister.

O Haven’t contacted her for ages.

O A good listener.O Knows me thoroughly.

The Importance of The Activity

A friendship starts from interpersonal attraction which are: 1) Propinquity effect 2) Similarity 3) Attractive

Christopher P.Roberts-GriffinUniversity of Pennsylvania

Penn McNair Research JournalVolume 3, issue 1, article 5

O Middle-school friendship contribute to academic achievement

O 1278 participants (698 girls)O High-achieving girls benefit from high-

achieving friends

O Tend to create a new friend when we were in high school.

The Journal of AdolescenceMiddle School Friendships and Academic Achievement in Early

Adolescence: A Longitudinal AnalysisMarie-Hèlène Vèronneau and Thomas J. Dishion

O To preserve the friendship

O Personal Relationship Volume 10 issue 2 page 187-196 June 2003

-> High-school friendship decline once a girl enter a college especially during freshman year Increase cost and alternative to the

friendship Maintain : Positivity, attractive and

prevent social loneliness

O Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel (Author of The Power of An Open Question)O Old friends are more reliable and

trustworthy -> last long, turn to them for help and they encourage us

O Hard to keep the old friend rather than to create the new one

-> Loss contact

O The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks

“People come, people go- they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cove, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past”