Friendship Formation in the Classroom Among Elementary School Students

Duarte-Barahona, Raúl; Arceo-May, Ezequiel; Huerta-Quintanilla, R.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-36683-4_33

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“…One of the core findings of social network research is that individual beliefs and behaviors do not result from personal attributes alone (Kilduff and Krackhardt, 2008), rather they are strongly influenced and shaped by social connections (Obembe, 2006). In the research on friendship network formation, the network structures of primary concern include homogeneity, reciprocity, transitive triples, cyclic triples, and geometricallyweighted edgewise shared partnerships (GWESP) parameters (Duarte-Barahona et al, 2020).…”

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Personality traits, self-efficacy, and friendship establishment: Group characteristics and network clustering of college students’ friendships

2022

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Friendship establishment was analyzed using constructs from social cognitive theory (self-efficacy and personality traits) and social network theory (reciprocity and triad closure). In further studies, we investigated the effect of personality traits, interpersonal self-efficacy, and network structure on the establishment of friendships. In this study, we used social network analysis method and exponential random graph model (ERGM). The following findings are reported. First, the friendship network of college students had small group characteristics, and the formation of this small group was more based on personality complementarity than similarity. The homogeneity hypothesis of personality was not tenable. Secondly, individuals with dominance or influence personality traits and high interpersonal self-efficacy were more likely to be in the center of the friendship network. Furthermore, personality traits and interpersonal self-efficacy may have interactive effects on the formation of friendship networks. Popularity and activity effects existed in friendship networks, but the reciprocal relationship based on personality traits was not verified. The balance structure can easily explain the agglomeration of friendships in a small range, indicating that small groups of friendships prefer a two-way circular close relationship. Finally, the formation of a friendship network includes the comprehensive process of individual characteristics and endogenous tie formation, which helps us to understand the social population structure and its process over a wider range.

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Personality traits, self-efficacy, and friendship establishment: Group characteristics and network clustering of college students’ friendships

2022

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“…It has been determined that friendship and enmity networks follow distinct degree distributions [20]. Based on this evidence, models have been proposed to determine the importance of homophily, transitivity, and the effects of preferential attachment in the formation of friendship networks [21]. In a different approach, a previous article examined groups that are internally friendly and mutually hostile in school classes in Mexico City, modeling group formation as an evolution towards Heider balance and identifying stronger gender segregation in younger classes [22].…”

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Popularity and Entropy in Friendship and Enmity Networks in Classrooms

Sánchez-Espinosa

Hernández-Ramírez

Castillo-Mussot

2023

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Looking for regular statistical trends of relations in schools, we constructed 42 independent weighted directed networks of simultaneous friendship and animosity from surveys we made in the Mexico City Metropolitan area in classrooms with students of different ages and levels by asking them to nominate and order five friends and five foes. However, the data show that older students nominated fewer than the five required five foes. Although each classroom was independent of the others, we found several general trends involving students of different ages and grade levels. In all classrooms, friendship entropy was found to be higher than enmity entropy, indicating that fewer students received enmity links than received friendship nominations. Popular agents exhibited more reciprocal nominations among themselves than less popular agents, and opposite-sex friendships increased with age.

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Friendship Formation in the Classroom Among Elementary School Students

Cited by 2 publications

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Personality traits, self-efficacy, and friendship establishment: Group characteristics and network clustering of college students’ friendships

Personality traits, self-efficacy, and friendship establishment: Group characteristics and network clustering of college students’ friendships

Popularity and Entropy in Friendship and Enmity Networks in Classrooms

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