Psychosocial Benefits of Cross-Ethnic Friendships in Urban Middle Schools
| Autor: | Anke Munniksma, Sandra Graham, Jaana Juvonen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Urban Population media_common.quotation_subject education Vulnerability Ethnic group Friends Peer Group Structural equation modeling Education Developmental psychology Interpersonal relationship Cultural diversity Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans Interpersonal Relations Child Crime Victims School Health Services media_common Social Identification Loneliness Peer group Hispanic or Latino Los Angeles humanities Black or African American Friendship Attitude Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Female Psychology Psychosocial Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | Child Development. 85:469-483 |
| ISSN: | 0009-3920 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/cdev.12159 |
| Popis: | To examine the unique functions of same- and cross-ethnic friendships, Latino (n = 536) and African American (n = 396) sixth-grade students (Mage = 11.5 years) were recruited from 66 classrooms in 10 middle schools that varied in ethnic diversity. Participants reported on the number of same- and cross-ethnic friends, perceived vulnerability, friendship quality, and the private regard dimension of ethnic identity. Whereas same-ethnic friendships were uniquely associated with stronger private regard, more ethnic diversity and cross-ethnic friendships were uniquely associated with less perceived vulnerability. Multilevel structural equation modeling tested whether cross-ethnic friendships mediated the diversity-vulnerability relation. Although cross-ethnic friendships did not significantly mediate this relation at the classroom level, these friendships predicted less vulnerability at the individual student level. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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