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Parental Influence on Friendships Between Native and Immigrant Adolescents
Author(s) -
Smith Sanne,
Maas Ineke,
Tubergen Frank
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of research on adolescence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.342
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1532-7795
pISSN - 1050-8392
DOI - 10.1111/jora.12149
Subject(s) - friendship , psychology , immigration , german , affect (linguistics) , developmental psychology , group (periodic table) , social psychology , communication , chemistry , archaeology , organic chemistry , history
Parental influence on friendships between native ( N = 5,683) and immigrant ( N = 3,371) adolescents (aged ± 15) was investigated with the CILS 4 EU data of pupils in German and Dutch school classes ( N = 446) and parents. The researchers examined whether parents affect friendships across group boundaries by shaping the structural opportunities to establish out‐group friends and their children's out‐group attitudes. The results show that if parents have more out‐group friends and if they consider it less important to maintain in‐group traditions, their children have more out‐group friends. Part of this relationship is mediated by children's out‐group attitudes. Some evidence is found that the opportunity structure mediates the relationship between parental characteristics and adolescent out‐group friendship.