“My Neighbor, My Friend": The Relevance of Support, Closeness, and History of Relations in Neighborhood Friendship

Minza, Wenty Marina and Nurdiyanto, F.A. and Muhiddin, Syurawasti and Pertiwi, Yopina Galih (2024) “My Neighbor, My Friend": The Relevance of Support, Closeness, and History of Relations in Neighborhood Friendship. Human Arenas, 7 (3). 657 – 681. ISSN 25225804

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Abstract

Friendship is a common and essential social relationship in daily life. Various works of literature have described friendship including how it is experienced in various contexts, yet limited studies have focused on the neighborhood context. This study aimed to investigate the relevance of neighborhood friendship and the characteristics of friendship that make it still relevant, especially in Indonesia. This study was conducted in two phases: 1) an online survey with an open-ended questionnaire and 2) in-depth interviews. A total of 222 participants completed the questionnaire and among those, 15 participants were interviewed to further understand the relevance of neighborhood friendship based on the emerging themes from the open-ended responses. This study found that neighborhood friendship is still relevant despite physical distance. Those relevancies are perceived in the three main characteristics of friendship: support, closeness, and history of relations. This study also found that the essence of friendship is not only discussed in a romantic view which highlights intimacy and closeness, but also in an instrumental view. However, support as an instrumental process may indicate the expressions of closeness, especially in close friendships. Furthermore, this study also suggests that although proximity characterized by physical interaction is crucial in the formation and maintenance of neighborhood friendship, physical distance and social mobility did not dissolve the relationship, due to the history of relations. In the neighborhood context, the history of relations bond people to a certain place and the social relationship formed in that particular place, stimulating certain feelings of belonging which encourage the maintenance of neighborhood friendship. © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Cited by: 1; All Open Access, Bronze Open Access
Uncontrolled Keywords: Closeness; Friendship; History of Relations; Neighborhood; Support
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions: Faculty of Psychology
Depositing User: Yulistiarini Kumaraningrum KUMARANINGRUM
Date Deposited: 31 Oct 2024 03:00
Last Modified: 31 Oct 2024 03:00
URI: https://ir.lib.ugm.ac.id/id/eprint/9806

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