View Article |
Gendered patterns of Malaysian students’ close friendships
Nur Hafeeza Ahmad Pazil1.
This paper seeks to clarify the gendered patterns of Malaysian students’ close
friendships and the ways in which the students practise intimacy with their close friends while
living temporarily abroad. Men’s and women’s friendships patterns, in general, are different as
there is a general assumption that men’s friendships are less intimate than women’s friendships,
and this has been discussed in western studies. This qualitative study using friendship maps,
diaries and in-depth interviews as research methods seeks to explore whether the male and
female students practise close friendships differently in terms of the number of and hierarchy of
friends and intimacy. Although the male students listed larger number of close friends compared
to the female students in general, only small number of close friends were perceived for both
students as important and intimate. This study shows that the practices of friendships are
complicated around gender. Gendered patterns were reported in the hierarchy of friendship and
intimacy but the level of closeness in friendship has more impact on how male and female
students practise instrumental and expressive friendships.
Affiliation:
- Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Download this article (This article has been downloaded 101 time(s))
|
|
Indexation |
Indexed by |
MyJurnal (2019) |
H-Index
|
0 |
Immediacy Index
|
0.000 |
Rank |
0 |
|
|
|