• Login
    View Item 
    •   Home
    • Brock Theses
    • Newly Added Theses
    • View Item
    •   Home
    • Brock Theses
    • Newly Added Theses
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Browse

    All of BrockUCommunitiesPublication DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsThis CollectionPublication DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsProfilesView

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    Statistics

    Display statistics

    Sociodemographic Homophily Within Friendship and Sequential Peer Victimization: A Longitudinal Dyadic Perspective

    • CSV
    • RefMan
    • EndNote
    • BibTex
    • RefWorks
    Thumbnail
    Name:
    Brock_Li_Jiayi_2023.pdf
    Size:
    1.147Mb
    Format:
    PDF
    Description:
    Quantitative research
    Download
    Author
    Li, Jiayi
    Keyword
    Peer Victimization
    Dyadic Perspective
    Peer Relationship
    Friendship Homophily
    
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10464/17609
    Abstract
    Bullying is embedded within peer social networks that involve more than just bullies and victims. Extant research mostly supports that victims’ friends–as the individuals closest to the victims in the peer network–can protect victims by reducing risk factors and promoting adjustment at the individual level (Bukowski et al., 2018). However, the effect of similarity between victims and their friends on peer victimization remains understudied. Homophily refers to the tendency that people to befriend similar others (Lazarsfeld & Merton,1964). The current thesis investigated how homophily–magnitude (i.e., similarity level) and direction (i.e., which party of the dyad has a high score in specific characteristics) in Emotionality, social status, and peer victimization experience–between youth and their mutual friends can impact the frequency of peer victimization, concurrently and over time. The data were extracted from a two-wave longitudinal study. The analytic sample included 207 Grade 5-9 participants (female 62.8%, Mage = 11.88, SD = 1.18), creating 424 friendship dyads. Regression analyses suggested that a higher level of similarity in peer victimization at Wave 1 and in social status at Wave 2 predicted the targeted youth’s lower frequency of peer victimization at Wave 2. Regarding homophily direction, befriending peers with lower Emotionality than oneself and with more peer victimization experience than oneself at Wave 1 predicted an increase in youth’s peer victimization at Wave 2. From a dyadic perspective, the current thesis supports the effect of friendship selection based on dyadic similarity and addresses the significant role of sociodemographic homophily within friendships. It also provides a more complete picture of how bullying operates in peer groups than the current bullying research has.
    Collections
    Newly Added Theses

    entitlement

     
    DSpace software (copyright © 2002 - 2023)  DuraSpace
    Quick Guide | Contact Us
    Open Repository is a service operated by 
    Atmire NV
     

    Export search results

    The export option will allow you to export the current search results of the entered query to a file. Different formats are available for download. To export the items, click on the button corresponding with the preferred download format.

    By default, clicking on the export buttons will result in a download of the allowed maximum amount of items.

    To select a subset of the search results, click "Selective Export" button and make a selection of the items you want to export. The amount of items that can be exported at once is similarly restricted as the full export.

    After making a selection, click one of the export format buttons. The amount of items that will be exported is indicated in the bubble next to export format.