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Peer Relations Across Contexts: Individual‐Network Homophily and Network Inclusion In and After School
Author(s) -
Kiesner Jeff,
Poulin François,
Nicotra Eraldo
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8624.00610
Subject(s) - homophily , psychology , inclusion (mineral) , context (archaeology) , preference , juvenile delinquency , peer group , developmental psychology , variance (accounting) , social psychology , peer effects , peer relations , friendship , similarity (geometry) , paleontology , business , accounting , artificial intelligence , computer science , economics , image (mathematics) , biology , microeconomics
Peer relations across 2 contexts (in school and after school) were examined for 577 participants, approximately 12 years old, from 3 middle schools in Milan, Italy. The primary research questions were: Do peer networks from different contexts uniquely contribute to explaining variance in individual behavior? Do measures of peer preference and peer network inclusion across contexts uniquely contribute to explaining individual depressive symptoms? Structural equation models showed that both the in‐school and the after‐school peer networks uniquely contributed to explaining variance in 2 types of individual problem behavior (in‐school problem behavior, after‐school delinquency), and that similarity with the 2 peer networks varied according to behaviors specific to each context and across gender. Finally, both in‐school and after‐school peer network inclusion contributed to explaining variance in depressive symptoms, after controlling for classroom peer preference.