Patterns of Undergraduate Student Interpersonal Interaction Network Change during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Autor/inn/en	Smith, Rachel A.; Brown, Michael G.; Grady, Kevin A.; Sowl, Stephanie; Schulz, Jessica M.
Titel	Patterns of Undergraduate Student Interpersonal Interaction Network Change during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Quelle	In: AERA Open, 8 (2022) 1, (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Smith, Rachel A.) ORCID (Brown, Michael G.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Undergraduate Students; COVID-19; Pandemics; School Closing; Online Courses; Interpersonal Relationship; Networks; Diversity; Peer Relationship; Friendship; Individual Characteristics; Interaction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? School closings; Schule; Schließung; Schließung (von Schulen); Online course; Online-Kurs; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Peer-Beziehungen; Freundschaft; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Interaktion
Abstract	In spring 2020, many U.S. colleges and universities rapidly shifted to online instruction and implemented social distancing policies to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Students experienced unprecedented disruption of their interpersonal academic and social networks due to the loss of physical proximity. We used egocentric network analysis and latent profile analysis with survey data from April 2020 and conducted follow-up interviews in September 2020 to examine some of the pandemic's immediate effects on student interpersonal network change. We found the disappearance of interpersonal network patterns featuring coworkers and academic ties, as well as reductions in students' overall number of connections and the role diversity of their networks. Results suggest potential ongoing reduction of peer academic relationships, implying that institutional personnel may need to pay particular attention to academic connections in online spaces and to regenerating students' academic networks when on-campus physical spaces may again be used to support learning. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01