Diversity in students' personal networks : an egocentric network analysis of diversity's role in student thriving.

Racial and ethnic diversity has previously been linked with a multitude of positive benefits in business, K-12 education, higher education, and in communities. Additionally, The Thriving Quotient is a mechanism for better understanding student success and wellbeing from a psychological perspective. The Thriving Quotient is comprised of five subscales: academic determination, engaged learning, social connectedness, diverse citizenship, and positive perspective. The present research used social network analysis to study how the network diversity of students may play a role in students' psychological thriving outcomes. Findings found that, while racial and ethnic diversity of students' networks is not predictive of thriving, the subscales of thriving are predictive of network homophily and heterogeneity.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S.Ed.

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Grantor

Baylor University.

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Vukelich, Alyssa 1994-

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Sriram, Rishi.

• Thriving.
• Diversity.
• Network analysis.

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• Baylor University works are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. Contact libraryquestions@baylor.edu for inquiries about permission.

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/2104/10702

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:baylor-ir.tdl.org:2104/10702