Individual difference in perceptions of social structure
Social standing predicts accuracy in social network perception
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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
Betweenness centrality · Centrality · Closeness · Developmental psychology · Interpersonal ties · Perception · Popularity · Social capital · Social network (sociolinguistics · Social network analysis · Social perception · Sociometry · Complex Network Analysis Techniques · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models
Social Networks and Organizations
Social Network Analysis
Social Cognition
Methodological Choices in Peer Nomination Research
Likeable versus popular
Small Sample Inference for Fixed Effects from Restricted Maximum Likelihood
Children in Peer Groups
Hierarchical linear models
The Ontogenesis of Social Dominance
Seeing and being seen
Network knowledge and the use of power
Power and the perception of social networks
How social exclusion distorts social network perceptions
Sex and network recall accuracy
Individuals’ power and their social network accuracy
Features of groups and status hierarchies in girls' and boys' early adolescent peer networks
Does Power Affect Perception in Social Networks? Two Arguments and an Experimental Test
Structure of a social environment
Cognitive Structure and Informant Accuracy
Culture as Consensus
Adolescents' perception of peer groups
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| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
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