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Individual difference in perceptions of social structure: Social standing predicts accuracy in social network perception
Social Development ( IF 2.462 ) Pub Date : 2022-02-10 , DOI: 10.1111/sode.12583
Emily S. Lee 1 , A. Michele Lease 1 , Dawn T. Robinson 2 , Stacey Neuharth‐Pritchett 1 , Jiajun Xu 1
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This study examined the extent to which social standing based on reputation (i.e., popularity), affective regard (i.e., peer acceptance and peer rejection), and affiliation-network centrality (i.e., degree, betweenness, and closeness centrality), in addition to gender and grade in school, predicted children's accuracy in detecting affiliation patterns within peer networks. Third through fifth-grade students (n = 400) were from three semi-rural elementary schools and clustered in eight grade-level units. The relationship between a child's perception of the affiliation (i.e., “hanging-out”) network and the collective perception of the affiliation network served as the indicator of network perception accuracy. In general, girls, older children, and more popular and well-connected children had more accurate perceptions of the social environment. In particular, girls, popular children, children with high degrees centrality, and fifth graders, were more likely to report ties that existed in the collectively perceived network (made fewer false-negative reports). Fifth graders’ specific patterns of accuracy/inaccuracy suggested a more developed cognitive model of social network structures. Children experiencing peer rejection made more false negative errors (failed to report existing ties). Interestingly, net of the other network variables in the model, closeness centrality was related to a decrease in falsely reporting ties (improving accuracy) but an increase in failing to report ties that existed (worsening accuracy). These relationships between children's social standing and grade level on their accuracy of network perception has conceptual and methodological implications for studies of children's social functioning within their school-based peer networks.

中文翻译:

社会结构感知的个体差异:社会地位预测社交网络感知的准确性

本研究检验了基于声誉(即受欢迎程度)、情感关注(即同伴接受和同伴拒绝)和隶属网络中心性(即程度、介数和亲近中心性)的社会地位的程度,此外在学校的性别和年级,预测了儿童在同伴网络中检测隶属关系模式的准确性。三至五年级学生(n = 400)来自三所半农村小学,分布在八个年级单位。儿童对隶属关系(即“闲逛”)网络的感知与对隶属关系网络的集体感知之间的关系作为网络感知准确性的指标。一般来说,女孩、年龄较大的儿童以及更受欢迎和人脉广泛的儿童对社会环境的感知更准确。特别是,女孩、受欢迎的孩子、高度中心性的孩子和五年级学生,更有可能报告存在于集体感知网络中的关系(更少的假阴性报告)。五年级学生的准确/不准确的具体模式表明社会网络结构的认知模型更加发达。经历同伴拒绝的孩子犯了更多的假阴性错误(未能报告现有关系)。有趣的是,除去模型中的其他网络变量,紧密中心性与错误报告关系的减少(提高准确性)但未能报告存在的关系的增加(准确性恶化)有关。儿童社会地位和年级水平对网络感知准确性的这些关系对于研究儿童在学校同伴网络中的社会功能具有概念和方法学意义。
更新日期:2022-02-10
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