Navigating young children's friendship selection: implications for practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Caron Carter
Keyword(s):  
Friendship Selection

scholarly journals The Co-development of Extraversion and Friendships: Bonding and Behavioral Mechanisms in Friendship Networks

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maarten van Zalk ◽  
Steffen Nestler ◽  
Katharina Geukes ◽  
Roos Hutteman ◽  
Mitja Back
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Behavior Changes ◽  
Friendship Networks ◽  
Positive Interaction ◽  
Interaction Mechanisms ◽  
Interaction Quality ◽  
Behavioral Mimicry ◽  
Event Based ◽  
Behavioral Mechanisms ◽  
Friendship Selection

Empirical evidence suggests that people select friends whose extraversion is similar to their own (selection effects). However, little is known about whether friends influence extraversion development (influence effects) and about the interaction mechanisms that underlie friendship selection and influence effects. We examined whether selection and influence effects explain similarity in extraversion between friends in two independent samples. Similarity in extraversion predicted a higher likelihood of friendship selection across four years in Sample 1 (n = 1,698; Mage = 22.72, SD = 2.99; 49% female) and across a period of 16 weeks in Sample 2 (n = 131; Mage = 21.34, SD = 3.95; 77% female). Friends’ extraversion predicted increases in young adults’ extraversion in both samples. In Sample 2, we examined the interaction mechanisms underlying these selection and influence effects by combining event-based experience-sampling network dynamics with diary data on friendship network and extraversion dynamics. Findings showed that (a) similarity in extraversion predicted positive interaction quality changes and (b) positive interaction quality predicted friendship selection (bonding mechanism). In the same sample, (I) friends’ extraversion predicted friends’ sociable behavior changes, (II) friends’ sociable behavior predicted young adults’ sociable behavior changes, and (III) young adults’ sociable behavior predicted extraversion changes (behavioral mimicry mechanism). These findings provide unique insight into interaction mechanisms underlying longitudinal links between friendships and extraversion.

Forms and Functions of Aggression in Adolescent Friendship Selection and Influence: A Longitudinal Social Network Analysis

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 515-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelle J. Sijtsema ◽  
Tiina Ojanen ◽  
René Veenstra ◽  
Siegwart Lindenberg ◽  
Patricia H. Hawley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Adolescent Friendship ◽  
Friendship Selection

Friendship selection

2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 521-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Rivas
Keyword(s):  
Friendship Selection

scholarly journals “Would You Be My Friend?”: Friendship Selection and Contagion Processes of Early Adolescents Who Experience Victimization

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (9) ◽  
pp. 1286-1310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Berger ◽  
Mariola Claudia Gremmen ◽  
Diego Palacios ◽  
Eduardo Franco
Keyword(s):  
Peer Relations ◽  
Early Adolescents ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Network Analyses ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Prosocial Peers ◽  
Social Network Analyses ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Friendship Selection

Victimization in early adolescence can have severe negative consequences later in life. Friendships are especially important in this time period. The present study investigated friendship selection and influence (contagion) processes with regard to victimization, as well as prosocial and aggressive characteristics of victims’ friends. Using social network analyses (RSiena), we longitudinally analyzed data of five fourth-grade classrooms, including 185 students (56.8% girls; [Formula: see text] age at Time 1 = 10 years old). Results showed that early adolescents who experience peer victimization were not likely to select peers with similar levels of victimization as friends but selected prosocial peers as friends. Moreover, friends did not become more similar over time in their victimization levels. Prosocial students selected similar peers as friends. The discussion highlights the relevance of fostering positive peer relations for targeting victimization and discusses the defending role of friends in victimization situations.

The role of perceived bullying norms in friendship dynamics: An examination of friendship selection and influence on bullying and victimization

2019 ◽  
pp. 016502541986853
Author(s):  
Huiyoung Shin
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Peer Nominations ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Friendship Selection

The current study examined whether youth’s perceived bullying norms play a role in friendship dynamics related to bullying and victimization among the fifth and sixth grade ( N = 736, 52% girls at Wave 1, N = 677, 52% girls at Wave 2) in elementary schools. Youth completed peer nominations (friendship, bullying, and victimization) and a self-reported measure of perceived bullying norms in the classroom. With longitudinal social network analysis (RSiena), this study investigated selection and influence of friends in bullying and victimization as well as the moderating role of perceived bullying norms in these processes. Results indicated that high bullying youth received many friendship nominations and tended to be more influenced by high bullying friends. In addition, highly victimized youth tended to form friendships with highly victimized peers, and youth whose friends are highly victimized became highly victimized themselves over time. As hypothesized, youth’s perceived bullying norms moderated these processes. As youth perceived higher bullying norms, the greater was the tendency for high bullying youth to select high bullying peers as friends and to be influenced by high bullying friends. Likewise, friend influence on victimization was magnified when youth perceived high bullying norms. The current study underscores the importance of youth’s perceived bullying norms in friendship dynamics of bullying and victimization.

scholarly journals The co-evolution of emotional well-being with weak and strong friendship ties

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timon Elmer ◽  
Zsófia Boda ◽  
Christoph Stadtfeld
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Influence ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Social Selection ◽  
Friendship Networks ◽  
Social Mechanisms ◽  
Friendship Selection

Social ties are strongly related to well-being. But what characterizes this relationship? This study investigates social mechanisms explaining how social ties affect well-being through social integration and social influence, and how well-being affects social ties through social selection. We hypothesize that highly integrated individuals–those with more extensive and dense friendship networks–report higher emotional well-being than others. Moreover, emotional well-being should be influenced by the well-being of close friends. Finally, well-being should affect friendship selection when individuals prefer others with higher levels of well-being, and others whose well-being is similar to theirs. We test our hypotheses using longitudinal social network and well-being data of 117 individuals living in a graduate housing community. The application of a novel extension of Stochastic Actor-Oriented Models for ordered networks (ordered SAOMs) allows us to detail and test our hypotheses for weak- and strong-tied friendship networks simultaneously. Results do not support our social integration and social influence hypotheses but provide evidence for selection: individuals with higher emotional well-being tend to have more strong-tied friends, and there are homophily processes regarding emotional well-being in strong-tied networks. Our study highlights the two-directional relationship between social ties and well-being, and demonstrates the importance of considering different tie strengths for various social processes.

scholarly journals The Prominence of Peer Interactions, Relationships, and Networks in Adolescence and Early Adulthood

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
René Veenstra ◽  
Lydia Laninga-Wijnen
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Social Comparison ◽  
Peer Relationships ◽  
Peer Interactions ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Adolescents And Young Adults ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Psychosocial Maladjustment ◽  
Friendship Selection

Peer relationships are prominent when children move into adolescence. Peer research has been motivated by an interest in understanding where peer interactions and relationships come from and how these experiences affect multiple aspects of positive and negative development. Peer research continues to provide insight in how adolescents strive for status and affection, how adolescents are connected to their peers, and how peers influence and select each other. Recent advances show the importance of considering variations between contexts (such as classrooms) in these peer processes. Selection and influence processes vary strongly between classrooms, and in particular popular peers set a norm for what behaviors are important for friendship selection and influence processes. Moreover, some contexts may elicit exacerbated social comparison processes, which may explain why certain individuals have academic or psychosocial maladjustment in some contexts but not in others. The avenues for further research offer researchers several opportunities to diversify and expand into new areas of inquiry among adolescents and young adults.

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