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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"friendship formation"”.
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Friendship formation in early adolescence
… (b) examine prospectively the earliest phases of friendship formation. Students were tested six times as they moved from Grade 6 in small elementary schools into Grade 7 in one larger high school. In May of Grade 6 and in September, October, November, December, and May of Grade 7, participants …
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African-American males with mental retardation: Friendship formation and maintenance in community-based employment
… usually have difficulty forming and maintaining friendships, especially with individuals who do not have disabilities. This study investigates that conclusion for African-American males. Using qualitative methodology, including multiple interviews, participant observation, and an ethnographic …
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The Effects of Observed Friendship Formation on Group Level Peer Experiences: A Study of Behaviorally Inhibited Preschooler
… and peer difficulties. However, positive friendships can serve as a buffer against this trajectory. Currently, very little is known about if friendships develop between preschool aged withdrawn children, and how this affects their group level peer processes. The purpose of the current …
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Essays on the political economy of development
… their friends preferentially, leading to ex ante friendship formation; and supervisors demand bribes from their officials with the goal of maximizing returns from unexposed officials. Individual merchant friendship formation imposes externalities on other merchants. I find that short-term policies …
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Social Interactions and Network Formation -- EmpiricalModeling and Applications
… an important role as channels to disseminate information or facilitate activities. By using the spatial autoregressive (SAR) model to study social interactions, one can utilize the detailed network information to construct a spatial weight matrix and generate the necessary nonlinearity to solve …
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Interracial Friendships in the US: A Better Understanding of Presence and Variation
… Previous studies have examined interracial friendships, typically within educational settings, in relation to racial prejudice without taking in to account the formation of interracial friendship. I address the void in the literature regarding the presence and formation of adult interracial …
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Social networks in industrial organization
… fewer friends. Chapter 2 presents a model of friendship formation in a social network. During each period a new player enters the social network, this player searches for and forms friendships with the existing population and all individuals play a prisoner's dilemma game with each of their …
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Reciprocity in middle aged women's same-sex close friendships: a qualitative study
Reciprocity in friendship has been identified as necessary to developmental stages of friendship formation in children and adolescents. Studies of young adults and older adults in reciprocal friendships have focused on gender differences, communication, and social satisfaction, including social …
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The Heterogeneity of Adolescent Factors: Investigating Individual, Interpersonal, and Contextual Factors
Friendship is an essential relationship, and its importance is particularly pronounced in adolescence. While it is known to be an important peer relationship, it is both dynamic and complex, meaning there are many aspects of adolescent friendship that remain to be understood. With my dissertation, …
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Chance Made Us Colleagues, Fun and Laughter Made Us Friends: Exploring the Formation and Development of Workplace Friendships Between Co-workers
Workplace friendship, while common within organisations, remains an underexplored area within organisational psychology. This thesis delves into the formation and development of workplace friendships between co-workers through the creation of a theoretical model. I highlight and link cognition, …
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Communities in Social Networks: Detection, Heterogeneity and Experimentation
… across statistics, machine learning, and information theory. In social networks, this mechanism often manifests as community structure. As a result, this work provides methods for discovering and leveraging these communities to better understand networks and the data they generate.</p><p>We …
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Peer relationships and the wellbeing of children with Developmental Language Disorder
… by their peers and report having good quality friendships. To understand the links between language and peer relationships of children with DLD, scholars have examined children’s language, behaviour, and other psychosocial attributes. Research findings, however, are inconclusive about the …
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Conceptualizing the Emergence of Social Capital in Young Children
… capital through intentional, complex networks of friendships that they actively form and sustain.</p>