How many friends do youth nominate? A meta-analysis of gender, age, and geographic differences in average outdegree centrality

IF 2.9 2区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

Social Networks Pub Date : 2024-10-16 DOI:10.1016/j.socnet.2024.10.001

Jennifer Watling Neal

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Abstract

This pre-registered meta-analysis uses multi-level random effects models to give precise estimates of average outbound best friend and friend nominations – average outdegree centrality – in youth friendship networks and examines whether average outdegree centrality varies by age, gender, and geographic region. Pooling 196 estimates reported in 51 articles reflecting 37 datasets from whole network studies, youth nominated 4.80 best friends on average (

S E = . 37

). Additionally, pooling 64 estimates reported in 20 articles reflecting 18 datasets from whole network studies, youth nominated 6.05 friends on average (

S E = . 60

). Early adolescents (10–14 years) nominated significantly more best friends than adolescents (15–18 years). However, there were no significant differences in average outdegree centrality by the gender or geographic region of the sample. Findings provide future research directions for understanding youth socializing environments and implications for peer interventions.

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年轻人提名了多少朋友？平均离散度中心性的性别、年龄和地域差异荟萃分析

这项预先登记的荟萃分析采用多层次随机效应模型，对青少年友谊网络中的平均对外好友和好友提名--平均离度中心性--进行了精确估算，并研究了平均离度中心性是否会因年龄、性别和地理区域的不同而有所变化。汇总了 51 篇文章中的 196 个估计值，这些文章反映了来自整个网络研究的 37 个数据集，结果显示青少年平均提名了 4.80 个好友（SE=.37）。此外，汇总了 20 篇文章中的 64 个估计值，反映了整个网络研究中的 18 个数据集，青少年平均提名了 6.05 个朋友（SE=.60）。早期青少年（10-14 岁）提名的好友明显多于青少年（15-18 岁）。然而，样本的性别或地理区域在平均离散度中心性方面没有明显差异。研究结果为了解青少年社交环境提供了未来研究方向，并对同伴干预产生了影响。

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Social Networks Multiple-

CiteScore

5.90

自引率

12.90%

发文量

118

期刊介绍： Social Networks is an interdisciplinary and international quarterly. It provides a common forum for representatives of anthropology, sociology, history, social psychology, political science, human geography, biology, economics, communications science and other disciplines who share an interest in the study of the empirical structure of social relations and associations that may be expressed in network form. It publishes both theoretical and substantive papers. Critical reviews of major theoretical or methodological approaches using the notion of networks in the analysis of social behaviour are also included, as are reviews of recent books dealing with social networks and social structure.