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Peer effects of friend and extracurricular activity networks on students’ academic performance
Social Science Research ( IF 2.617 ) Pub Date : 2021-04-29 , DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102560
Hideki Fujiyama 1 , Yoshinori Kamo 2 , Mark Schafer 3
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Relationships with peers are critical for many aspects of adolescent development, including academic outcomes. Incorporating social control, social learning, and social capital theories, we investigated connections between two types of peer networks, close friends and extracurricular activity (ECA) members, and students’ own academic performance. Social learning and bonding social capital perspectives posit that close friends should have a symmetrical effect, either beneficial or harmful, because they exert strong influences on adolescents. By contrast, social control and bridging/linking social capital perspectives suggest that ECA member influences should be asymmetrical as they amplify benefits from higher-performing ECA peers and minimize harmful influences from lower-performing ones. We used Add Health data to test our hypotheses. We found that the average friend GPA was positively associated (in the same direction) with student GPA, while ECA member GPAs were, as hypothesized, asymmetrically linked to student GPA. We discussed implications for educators and future research.



中文翻译:

朋友和课外活动网络对学生学业成绩的同伴影响

与同龄人的关系对于青少年发展的许多方面都至关重要,包括学业成绩。结合社会控制、社会学习和社会资本理论,我们调查了两种同伴网络、亲密朋友和课外活动 (ECA) 成员之间的联系,以及学生自己的学习成绩。社会学习和联结社会资本的观点认为,亲密的朋友应该产生对称的影响,无论是有益的还是有害的,因为他们对青少年产生了强烈的影响。相比之下,社会控制和桥接/链接社会资本的观点表明,ECA 成员的影响应该是不对称的,因为它们会放大来自表现较高的 ECA 同行的利益,并尽量减少来自表现较差的 ECA 同行的有害影响。我们使用 Add Health 数据来检验我们的假设。我们发现,平均朋友 GPA 与学生 GPA 呈正相关(在同一方向上),而 ECA 成员 GPA 与学生 GPA 呈不对称关系。我们讨论了对教育工作者和未来研究的影响。

更新日期:2021-05-25
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