Birds of a Different Feather: How Do Cross-Ethnic Friends Flock Together?

The salience of sport in cross-race friendship selection

“…race), the more likely individuals are to engage in crossgroup relations based on that characteristic (Blau, 1977). This is perhaps the most straightforward of Blau's arguments, as opportunities for adolescent cross-race friendship formation depend upon racial mixing opportunities (Echols & Graham, 2013;Graham, Munniksma, & Juvonen, 2014;Simpkins, Schaefer, Price, & Vest, 2013).…”

Determinantes del estrés psicológico no específico entre los adolescentes latinoamericanos en Madrid la edad a la migración y la concentración escolar

“…La propincuidad (propinquity, o la tendencia a tener lazos de amistad con personas que comparten las mismas características) también es un determinante importante para la amistad intergrupal. Utilizando una teoría clásica del lado de la oferta: la probabilidad de tener amigos de diversos orígenes es una función de la composición de las escuelas (Echols y Graham, 2013). Según esta perspectiva, el efecto de la concentración étnica/inmigrante diferirá según el nivel de diversidad étnica en las escuelas.…”

Meeting in the Middle: The Role of Mutual Biracial Friends in Cross‐Race Friendships

“…In such schools, monoracial youth have opportunities for friendship with peers from a variety of racial groups, including biracial youth. We also examined homophilous predictors of crossrace friendships such as similarity in gender, academic achievement (Chen & Graham, 2015;Hamm et al, 2005), and peer reputation (Echols & Graham, 2013) that were included as covariates in our analysis. Since friendships choices are constrained by availability (propinquity) of potential friends (McPherson et al, 2001) and sharing classes with peers is associated with friendship nominations (Clark & Ayers, 1988;Hallinan & Williams, 1989), we developed a new index of propinquity based on students' class schedules that measured each participant's exposure to their sixth-grade peers throughout the school day.…”

“…Previous research also documents that cross-race friendships are associated with similarities in peer reputations (Echols & Graham, 2013;Hamm, 2000). Thus, as part of the peer nomination procedure for friendships described earlier, students were asked to nominate the students in their grade who they liked to hang out with (peer acceptance), who they did not like to hang out with (peer rejection), who were picked on by others (peer victimization), and who picked on others (peer aggression).…”