No.18: Research Article #1

The first research article that I read is The antecedents of friendships in moderately diverse classrooms: Social preference, social impact, and social behavior. The reason I chose to do this one first, honestly, was because it was relatively the shortest one and it’s too late for me to read longer articles and then analysis them.

This paper is actually about a research on how same racial/ethnic friendship and cross racial/ethnic friendship would be affect. The researcher set up three hypothesis to use for the research: “(1) social preference would be more strongly related to the frequency and stability of friendships, especially same-racial/ethnic friendships, and social impact would be more strongly related to the frequency and stability of friendships, especially cross-racial/ethnic friendships; (2) social behaviors such as relational inclusion and leadership skills or physical and relational aggression would be positively or negatively associated with the frequency and stability of friendships, particularly cross-racial/ ethnic friendships; and (3) these associations would be influenced by classroom diversity (specific hypotheses regarding classroom effects were presented previously).” (From the article The antecedents of friendships in moderately diverse classrooms: Social preference, social impact, and social behavior, by Kawabata, Yoshito and Crick, Nicki R.)

The result of the research shows that when people have gained popularity in same racial/ethnic group, they tend to care less about cross racial/ethnic relationship. For those who get into cross racial/ethnic relationship, the relationships may not last very long. And people with high levels of leadership skills are less likely to have physical and relational aggression.

Bibliography:

Kawabata, Yoshito, and Nicki R. Crick. "The antecedents of friendships in moderately diverse classrooms: Social preference, social impact, and social behavior." International Journal of Behavioral Development 35.1 (2011): 48-57. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 22 Jan. 2011.