CO SCI 136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Homophily, Cyberbullying, Psychopathology
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Objectives: after this lecture you should be able to: Evaluate the benefits and disadvantages of friendships. Each member of dyad agrees are friends voluntary relationship: start to express preferences in preschool years, behave differently with friends. Can be volatile and have more conflict with friends . Similarity of friends: notion of homophily, similarity in: Behaviour (berndt, 1982): more controversial similarity or complementarity, adolescents similar towards school and towards culture selection or socialisation, both processes operating together. Importance of similarity in behaviour depends on reputational salience of behaviour hartup (1996): Peer ratings of 11 year olds in classroom. Rated on prosocial behaviour, antisocial behaviour, and emotional withdrawal. Sex differences: girls show more similarity between friends on prosocial and antisocial, boys on shyness. Reflects differences in reputational salience of these attributes. Benefits of friendships: emotional support and validation enhancement of worth. Combat loneliness: buffering effect against victimization by peers. Number of friends correlates with victimisation (hodges et al. , 1997)
