Social Network Analyses of Positive and Negative Relationships among Japanese Preschool Classmates

Autor/inn/en	Fujisawa, Keiko K.; Kutsukake, Nobuyuki; Hasegawa, Toshikazu
Titel	Social Network Analyses of Positive and Negative Relationships among Japanese Preschool Classmates
Quelle	In: International Journal of Behavioral Development, 33 (2009) 3, S.193-201 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0165-0254
DOI	10.1177/0165025408098015
Schlagwörter	Probability; Social Networks; Preschool Children; Peer Relationship; Gender Differences; Age Differences; Interpersonal Competence; Network Analysis; Foreign Countries; Aggression; Prosocial Behavior; Antisocial Behavior; Student Behavior; Japan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung; Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Peer-Beziehungen; Geschlechterkonflikt; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Netzplantechnik; Ausland; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten
Abstract	Using social network analysis, we investigated the characteristics of social networks composed of positive relationships (positive network: PN) and negative relationships (negative network: NN) in classrooms of Japanese 3- and 4-year-olds. Analysis of "density" showed that PNs were denser than NNs among 4-year-olds but that this was not the case among 3-year-olds. The difference between the probability of dyads of girls forming cliques, between PNs and NNs, was larger than that for dyads of boys or mixed-sex dyads. Four-year-olds formed cliques more often in PNs than in NNs, compared to 3-year-olds. This study showed that both sex combination of dyads and age affect the quantified properties of social networks among preschoolers. (Contains 4 figures, 3 tables and 2 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10