Differences in perceived social connection help explain SES-based gaps in well-being

IF 2.9 2区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

Social Networks Pub Date : 2025-03-23 DOI:10.1016/j.socnet.2025.03.004

Wicia M. Fang , Andrea Courtney , Matthew O. Jackson , Jamil Zaki

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Abstract

Low socioeconomic status (SES) undergraduates are often worse off in well-being than high-SES peers. These “well-being gaps” lessen when low-SES students self-report being socially connected; however, one’s perception of their own connectedness in a network differs from external proxies. Within a network of 785 undergraduates, we examine two social network measures of connection—self-reported number of friends (outdegree) and number of undergraduate peers who reported them as a friend (indegree). Low- (vs. high-) SES students have a lower outdegree yet have a similar indegree. Critically, low-SES students who report a lower outdegree are also poorer in well-being, even when controlling for indegree, though the effect is small. This work underlines the perception of connection.

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感知社会联系的差异有助于解释基于ses的幸福感差距

社会经济地位低的大学生往往比社会经济地位高的同龄人的幸福感更差。当社会经济地位低的学生自我报告有社会联系时，这些“幸福感差距”会减少；然而，一个人对自己在网络中的连通性的感知不同于外部代理。在一个由785名本科生组成的网络中，我们研究了两种社会网络连接的测量方法——自我报告的朋友数量（学历）和报告他们是朋友的本科生同伴数量（学历）。低（与高）社会经济地位的学生有较低的学历，但有相似的程度。至关重要的是，即使在控制程度的情况下，报告学历较低的低社会经济地位学生的幸福感也较差，尽管影响很小。这项工作强调了联系的感知。

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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.