Test how much weight friendship holds in your heart

1. What Is 'Friendship Weight'?

'Friendship weight' refers not to how many friends you have, but to how much friendship counts in your personal value system, decision-making, and emotional support system. It reflects how a person weighs friendship against other life priorities (e.g., personal achievement, family, romance, time alone), and how much they are willing to invest in friendship in different situations.

Understanding your own 'friendship weight' helps us:

• Recognize the core elements you value most in friendship (companionship, support, growth, or boundaries).
• Reduce social conflicts caused by mismatched expectations.
• Build a social circle that matches your values more proactively.

2. Theoretical Basis: Psychological and Sociological Perspectives on Friendship

This test draws on the following classic theories:

• Aristotle's Three Types of Friendship: friendships of 'utility' (based on mutual benefit), friendships of 'pleasure' (based on enjoyable company), and friendships of 'virtue' (based on admiring each other's character). This theory helps us distinguish the deeper motives of friendship.
• Social Exchange Theory: proposed by Homans, it holds that interpersonal interaction resembles economic transactions and that people unconsciously weigh the 'costs' and 'rewards' of a relationship. The theory explains why some friendships naturally fade as life stages change.
• Attachment Theory Applied to Friendship: research shows that early attachment styles influence trust, support-seeking behavior, and separation anxiety in adult friendships.
• The 'Supportive Communication' Model of Friendship: emphasizes that empathy, self-disclosure, and active responsiveness are the core behavioral markers of high-quality friendship.

3. The Four Dimensions of the Test Design

This test contains 16 items organized around four core facets of friendship weight:

• Emotional Investment: the degree to which you are willing to give emotionally to friends, including empathy, companionship, and proactive care.
• Value Trade-Off: your inclination when friendship conflicts with other important matters (work, family, personal space).
• Support Behavior Tendency: your willingness and manner of offering practical help or emotional support when a friend is in difficulty.
• Beliefs in Friendship Stability: how you view changes in friendship, distance, and the possibility of repair after conflict.

4. Target Users and Scenarios

This test is suitable for:

• People who want to sort out their social values, for example those who often feel confused in friendship or sense the giving is unequal
• People in life transitions (e.g., graduation, moving, career change) who need to reposition their friendships
• People interested in psychology who want to understand the unconscious patterns behind interpersonal decisions
• People who hope to improve the quality of their real-life friendships through self-knowledge

5. Scoring Logic and Result Types

Each item uses a 1-5 point scale, from 'not at all true of me' to 'completely true of me'. After the test, the system will classify your 'friendship weight' style into one of the following five types based on your combined scores across the four dimensions:'Deep Symbiosis','Value Trade-Off','Pleasant Companionship','Independent Boundaries' or 'Conflicted Waverer'. Each type comes with a targeted interpretation and relationship advice, helping you better understand your behavior patterns and hidden expectations in friendship.