Relationships with friends: Effects on a young person’s self-confidence.

A relationship is a connection that a person has with another person. Most people have many different relationships like with friends, family, acquaintances, teachers, employers.

Having a positive relationship with friends can have significant effects on a young person's self-confidence, for the following reasons:

• Having a relationship with friends gives the young person a sense of belonging with people who share the same interests.

• Having a relationship with friends helps a person's self-confidence as they feel they are in a group of friends who accepts them and tolerates them for who they are and do not laugh at them, or try to change them.

• Having a relationship with friends helps a young person’s self-confidence as they feel they have a support mechanism that can help them with family problems, school issues, girlfriend/boyfriend issues.

• Having a relationship with friends builds trust that they know they can turn to their friends anytime and their friends will be there for them.

• Having a relationship with friends develops commitment with people who will help them through good times and bad times.

• Depending on the activities their friends are involved in, the young person may become more active in the church, fund-raising for good causes and develop a sense of self-worth and self-confidence. Mutual respect would also grow between the friends.

Check out the CCEA GCSE Learning for Life and Work Second Edition Textbook to find out more or check out: My Revision Notes: CCEA GCSE Learning for Life and Work: Second Edition

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