Development proposal for social friendship as a promoting element of well-being

Abstract

This article presents an exhaustive documentary analysis focused on the Civic-Institutional Dimension, the fifth of the five analytical-practical dimensions that comprise the author's original research. The fundamental objective is to demonstrate how the construct of social civic friendship acts as an indispensable engine for collective well-being and human flourishing, solving the classical rupture between the private and public spheres. Methodologically, analytical and hermeneutic mapping is carried out crossing the three essential learning dimensions of the UNESCO Guide (2015) (cognitive, socio-emotional, and behavioral), with the individual character strengths of positive psychology and the civic-moral virtues of the philosophy of education. The results reveal the breakdown of the classical assumption of linearity between private affection and public coexistence, demonstrating the need for integration. It concludes by resolving the central hypothesis: individualized, selective, and preferential love from the private sphere becomes a universalizable bond capable of sustaining the well-being of a citizenship of strangers through a process of intentional institutional reorientation. Through this pedagogical design, private psychological strengths are not canceled, but rather educated and elevated toward public virtues, positioning social civic friendship as the only theoretically and practically viable alternative to mitigate social polarization.