Abstract :
In this article, 280 college students are randomly selected in certain college of Shandong Province, and the method of factor analysis is used to study the characters of ideal friends in college students’ heart, and the differences of college students’ requirements for ideal friends are compared in different grades, sexes and economic status. The result shows that (1) the ideal friends in contemporary college students’ heart should possess four main characters, i.e. sincere kindness & friendly tolerance, optimistic personality & being good at communication, diligence, assiduity & active enterprising, graceful image & good temperament, (2) female students require higher quality for the factor of “graceful image & good temperament” than male students, (3) two factors of “optimistic personality & being good at communication” and “diligence, assiduity & active enterprising” have no obvious differences in sophomores, juniors and seniors who all require higher quality than freshmen’s requirements for friends, and the factor of “diligence, assiduity & active enterprising” has the interaction of sex and grade, (4) for the factor of “sincere kindness & friendly tolerance”, poor students require higher quality than others for friends.
