Social Network Closure and Child Adjustment

Fletcher, Anne C.; Newsome, Deborah W.; Nickerson, Pamela; Bazley, Ronda

doi:10.1353/mpq.2001.0021

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“…Indeed, intergenerational closure has been linked to improved academic outcomes, self-esteem, and social competence and to lower levels of externalizing behavior for European American youth (Fletcher et al 2001). The benefits of intergenerational closure were present, but less consistent, for African American youth, and despite its protective role for many outcomes (e.g., academic competence, internalizing behavior), intergenerational closure seemed to increase risk for externalizing behavior for African American youth.…”

Section: Child Monitoring and The Regulation Of Children's Peer Groupsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, affluent residents in a mixed-income community were more supportive of rules and enforcement mechanisms that promoted social control than their lower-income neighbors (Rosenbaum et al 1998). These factors could explain why intergenerational closure is less consistently beneficial and at times detrimental for African American youth (e.g., Fletcher et al 2001).…”

Section: Child Monitoring and The Regulation Of Children's Peer Groupsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Gentrification and Urban Children's Well‐Being: Tipping the Scales from Problems to Promise

Formoso

Weber

Atkins

2010

American J of Comm Psychol

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Gentrification changes the neighborhood and family contexts in which children are socialized-for better and worse-yet little is known about its consequences for youth. This review, drawn from research in urban planning, sociology, and psychology, maps out mechanisms by which gentrification may impact children. We discuss indicators of gentrification and link neighborhood factors, including institutional resources and collective socialization, to family processes more proximally related to child development. Finally, we discuss implications for intervention and public policy recommendations that are intended to tip the scales toward better outcomes for low-income youth in gentrifying areas.

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Section: Child Monitoring and The Regulation Of Children's Peer Groupsmentioning

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Section: Child Monitoring and The Regulation Of Children's Peer Groupsmentioning

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Gentrification and Urban Children's Well‐Being: Tipping the Scales from Problems to Promise

Formoso

Weber

Atkins

2010

American J of Comm Psychol

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“…Actors in a closed network are considered trustworthy. From the perspective of educational psychology, the closure concept predicts that actors connecting to other actors in a similar way easily encourage resource exchange, which creates dense clusters and forms the closed network [37][38][39] . Some researchers have proposed that closure should be measured as the accumulation of links received per actor.…”

Section: Applying Social Network Analysis To Patent Citationmentioning

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“…Based on the Coleman concept, Fletcher et al [37] proposed a measurement and calculation of closure, which is used in this study. It measures closure by calculating the ties received from other actors.…”

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Network Structure of Innovation: Can Brokerage or Closure Predict Patent Quality?

Wang

Chiang

Lin

2009

2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Patents are important intellectual assets. Approaches to evaluating patent quality are mostly a posteriori uses of factual information of patent quality. This paper examines whether patent quality can be predicted a priori, i.e., at an early stage after a patent is granted by analyzing information embedded in a network of patent citations. Social network analysis was applied to analyze two complementary network positions occupied by a patent brokerage and closure to determine whether either position predicts patent quality. Differences in patent citation counts and maintenance years were adopted as surrogates of patent quality. The analytical results showed that higher brokerage value can lead to higher increments of patent citation counts; higher closure value can lead to longer maintenance. The interactive effect of brokerage and closure position was confirmed. These analytical results imply that a company should focus on developing patents that bridge different technologies as technology development reaches maturity.

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“…In middleclass, European American culture, young people who coalesce into a friendship circle tend to draw their parents together on the basis of the adults' desire to "check out" the characteristics of peers with whom their child is spending time, and the adults' need to check up on peer activities (such as making sure that a friend' s parent is supervising an activity that one' s child wants to attend). It becomes expedient for adults to form their social lives around the other families whom they frequently encounter in their children' s activities (Fletcher, Newsome, and Nickerson, 2001;Lareau, 2003).…”

Section: Types Of Family-peer Linkages In Adolescencementioning

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The cultural context of family-peer linkages in adolescence

Brown

Mounts

2007

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

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By nature, humans are social beings, dependent on relationships with others for their survival and well-being. Family relations are a core component of human experience, but in most societies individuals venture beyond the family crucible sometime during childhood or adolescence to form meaningful relationships with peers. As a result, family-peer linkages are a crucial aspect of human development. There is extensive scholarship about these linkages during childhood, but surprisingly little work on connections between family and peer relationships during adolescence. Moreover, only recently have scholars begun to consider the degree to which and how family-peer linkages are culturally embedded and affected by social and ethnic backgrounds. This work heralds a new era in research on connections between adolescents' peer and family worlds. Such research requires awareness of the limitations of previous scholarship as well as understanding of the many ways in which family and peer relationships may intersect in adolescence. Likewise, researchers must be attentive to the variety of ways in which ethnicity or culture has been conceptualized or operationalized in social scientific research. In this chapter we consider these issues and then present a set of general principles that can guide future investigations of family-peer linkages in adolescence.

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Social Network Closure and Child Adjustment

Cited by 21 publications

References 22 publications

Gentrification and Urban Children's Well‐Being: Tipping the Scales from Problems to Promise

Gentrification and Urban Children's Well‐Being: Tipping the Scales from Problems to Promise

Network Structure of Innovation: Can Brokerage or Closure Predict Patent Quality?

The cultural context of family-peer linkages in adolescence

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