Contributions of Racial and Sociobehavioral Homophily to Friendship Stability and Quality among Same-Race and Cross-Race Friends

Autor/inn/en	McDonald, Kristina L.; Dashiell-Aje, Ebony; Menzer, Melissa M.; Rubin, Kenneth H.; Oh, Wonjung; Bowker, Julie C.
Titel	Contributions of Racial and Sociobehavioral Homophily to Friendship Stability and Quality among Same-Race and Cross-Race Friends
Quelle	In: Journal of Early Adolescence, 33 (2013) 7, S.897-919 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-4316
DOI	10.1177/0272431612472259
Schlagwörter	Friendship; Race; Prediction; Adolescents; Shyness; Withdrawal (Psychology); Peer Acceptance; Aggression; Victims; Bullying; Middle School Students; Questionnaires; Factor Analysis; Racial Identification; Interviews; Telecommunications; Metropolitan Areas; Incidence; Correlation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Freundschaft; Rasse; Abstammung; Vorhersage; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Schüchternheit; Rückzugsverhalten; Victim; Opfer; Mobbing; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Fragebogen; Faktorenanalyse; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Telekommunikationstechnik; Ballungsraum; Vorkommen; Korrelation
Abstract	The current study examined how racial and sociobehavioral similarities were associated with friendship stability and friendship quality. Cross-race friends were not significantly similar to each other in peer-nominated shyness/withdrawal, victimization, exclusion, and popularity/sociability. Relative to same-race friends, cross-race friends were significantly less similar in peer-nominated popularity/sociability, exclusion, and victimization. Although same-race friendships were more prevalent than cross-race friendships, only similarity in friends' aggressive behavior (but not racial homophily) was related to friendship stability. Neither racial nor sociobehavioral similarity predicted friendship quality beyond adolescents' individual sociobehavioral characteristics. Taken together, findings suggest that although racial similarity may affect initial friendship formation, racial similarity may not impact friendship stability or friendship quality when also accounting for friends' similarity in sociobehavioral characteristics. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10