This Social Development quartet highlights how social network approaches can enhance developmental researchers’ understanding of the benefits of intergroup connections for diverse youth. The introduction provides an overview of the four included articles, highlighting their common and unique contributions to the literature. The first article describes four relational mechanisms that could explain the benefits of intergroup connections and summarizes promising social network methods that can be used to explore these mechanisms. The second article examines how friends’ parental education is associated with the academic outcomes of adolescents from socioeconomically and ethnoracially diverse backgrounds. The remaining two articles examine how cross-linguistic relationships at the individual and setting level are associated with academic and social outcomes for youth. As a set these articles represent multiple types of intergroup connections, network relationships (e.g., friendship, affiliation, academic collaboration) and settings (e.g., schools, classrooms, afterschool programs). They provide a nuanced account of the benefits of intergroup connections and offer promising future directions for research.

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社会发展四重奏：群体间联系的好处：检查同伴网络与不同青年的学术和社会情感能力之间的关联

这种社会发展四重奏强调了社交网络方法如何增强发展研究人员对不同青年群体间联系的好处的理解。引言概述了所包含的四篇文章，强调了它们对文献的共同和独特贡献。第一篇文章描述了四种关系机制，可以解释群体间联系的好处，并总结了可用于探索这些机制的有前途的社交网络方法。第二篇文章探讨了朋友的父母教育如何与来自社会经济和种族不同背景的青少年的学业成绩相关联。其余两篇文章研究了个人和环境层面的跨语言关系如何与青年的学业和社会成果相关联。作为一个集合，这些文章代表了多种类型的群体间联系、网络关系（例如，友谊、隶属关系、学术合作）和环境（例如，学校、教室、课后活动）。它们对群体间联系的好处进行了细致入微的描述，并为未来的研究提供了有希望的方向。