Title
Ethnic In-and Out-Group Friendships Going Into Early Adolescence: Prevalence, Quality, Stability, and the Role of the Network Structure
Author
Zsófia Boda
Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, ETH Zürich
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Abstract
The present study sought to investigate the friendship formation of ethnic in-and out-group friendships, as well as differences in stability and quality, while accounting for the network structure (such as the tendency to befriend friends of friends). We analyzed longitudinal data from 770 students from 42 Austrian primary school classes collected over the course of their last year of primary school. First, friendship prevalence, quality and stability were investigated using multiple regression quadratic assignment procedures. Then, friendship creation and stability were modeled over time using multilevel stochastic actor-oriented models. The results did not show significant differences between the creation of in-and out-group friendships; however, it was found that in-group friendships were more stable over time. The results further underscore the importance of considering network structure effects when analyzing intergroup friendship prevalence, creation, and stability.
Keywords
networksfriendshipimmigrationcross-culturalcross-ethnic
Object type
Language
English [eng]
Persistent identifier
phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:1924409
Appeared in
Title
The Journal of Early Adolescence
Volume
43
Issue
7
ISSN
0272-4316
Issued
2023
From page
867
To page
907
Publication
SAGE Publications
Version type
Date issued
2023
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