Are we good friends?
- Empirical studies already examined various facets of the friendship construct. Building on this, the present study examines the questions of how the number of friendships and their quality differ between students with and without SEN and whether a homophily-effect can be identified. The sample consists of 455 fourth-graders from 28 inclusive classes in Austria. The results indicate that students with SEN have fewer friends than students without SEN. Furthermore, students without SEN preferred peers without SEN as a friend. This homophily-effect was shown for students with SEN, too. However, students with and without SEN rated the quality of their friendships similarly and no interactions between the SEN status of oneself or of the friend was found for the quality of the friendship. The results show that, in the context of inclusion, the issue of friendship needs to be increasingly addressed to improve the situation of students with SEN.
Author details: | Lisa HoffmannORCiDGND, Jürgen WilbertORCiDGND, Mike LehoferORCiD, Susanne SchwabORCiDGND |
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Title of parent work (English): | European Journal of Special Needs Education |
Subtitle (English): | Friendship preferences and the quantity and quality of mutual friendships |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Place of publishing: | London |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2019/10/14 |
Publication year: | 2020 |
Release date: | 2021/11/18 |
Tag: | friendship; homophily; quality of friendship; social participation; sociometric nomination |
Volume: | 36 |
Issue: | 4 |
Number of pages: | 16 |
Funding institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Bildungswissenschaften / Department für Inklusionspädagogik |
DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access / Gold Open-Access |
License (German): | CC-BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |
External remark: | Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe ; 732 |