Men's friendships, women's friendships and the alleged inferiority of the latter

Wright, Paul H.

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“…For example, Hoxby (2000) finds evidence that students have better math performance when they are in classrooms that contain more females. 20 their same sex friends (Boyce, 2004, Ch.4), and have interactions that tend to be more personal in nature and involve more self-disclosure and emotional support (Maccoby, 1990, Wright, 1982. 22 An important policy question is whether certain types of students can receive substantial peer benefits without other students incurring substantial costs.…”

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What can be learned about peer effects using college roommates? Evidence from new survey data and students from disadvantaged backgrounds

Stinebrickner

2006

Journal of Public Economics

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Abstract:Previous papers which examine the importance of peer effects using exogenous variation in college roommates have found only very limited evidence that a student's first year grade performance is influenced by the observable academic characteristics of his/her roommate. One possible explanation for this finding is that peer effects do not play a particularly important role in the higher education setting. However, another very plausible explanation for this finding is that peer effects are important in higher education but that these previous empirical efforts have simply not been "looking in the right place" to find the evidence of peer effects in this setting. Thus, while these papers have received considerable attention due to the general difficulty of finding credible exogenous variation in peer quality, they have difficulty answering the most fundamental question related to peer effects in this higher education -whether peer effects play an important role or not. This paper provides depth to the peer effects literature using unique new survey and administrative data.keywords: peer effects, education, educational attainment, higher education, poverty JEL codes: I2 -Education, J -Labor and Demographic Economics 1 The authors present a review of past theoretical and empirical work on peer effects. Given the thoroughness of the review, we have chosen not to repeat it here.2 Sacerdote (2001) finds no evidence that a student's first year grade point average is influenced by his/her roommate's score on an academic index created by the Dartmouth admissions office if this score is included in the specified grade regression in a linear fashion. In a different specification, having a roommate with an academic index score in the top 25% is found to increase a student's grade point average by .033 relative to having a roommate with a score in the bottom 25% and by .047 relative to having a roommate with a score in the middle 50%. A test of the null hypothesis that there is no difference between having a roommate in the top 25% and having a roommate in the bottom 25% is not rejected at standard significance levels. A test of the null hypothesis that there 1 Peer effects have the potential to play important roles in determining the impact of many current and potential education policies. Unfortunately, determining the nature and importance of peer effects in either lower or higher education is a difficult task. The empirical difficulty stems from the reality that a given student's classmates and friends are determined by a complex set of decisions made by the student, the student's parents, and/or school administrators and teachers. This non-randomness creates problems of inference because it implies that unobservable determinants of a particular student's academic outcomes may tend to be systematically related to the observable and unobservable characteristics of his/her friends or classmates.This empirical difficulty was emphasized recently by Sacerdote (2001) andZimmerman (2003) who reviewed past literature on...

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What can be learned about peer effects using college roommates? Evidence from new survey data and students from disadvantaged backgrounds

Stinebrickner

2006

Journal of Public Economics

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“…Rose, 1984;Gouldner and Symons Strong, 1987;Helgeson et al, 1987) have found a similar pattern of avoidance of conflict in friendship (Wright'S 1982 study is an exception in this respect). These implicitly suggest that the process of dissolution in friendship may be rather different from the general model of relationship dissolution proposed by Duck (1982).…”

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“…Over and over again it has been noted that male and female same-sex friendships vary systematically (Bell, 1981b;Caldwell and Peplau, 1982;Wright, 1982;Duck, 1983;Sherrod, 1989). Researchers have found that Women are particularly likely to have intimate confidants (Kornarovsky, 1967;Booth, 1972;Cozby, 1973;Powers and Bultena, 1976;Bell, 1981b;Wright, 1982;Aries and Johnson, 1983;Derlega and Winstead, 1986); that mutual helpfulness is most central to female friendships, whereas shared activities and similar interests are most central to males (Weiss and Lowenthal, 1975;Aukett et al, 1988) and that females use more non-verbal expressions of affection (Rands and Levinger, 1979).…”

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“…Researchers have found that Women are particularly likely to have intimate confidants (Kornarovsky, 1967;Booth, 1972;Cozby, 1973;Powers and Bultena, 1976;Bell, 1981b;Wright, 1982;Aries and Johnson, 1983;Derlega and Winstead, 1986); that mutual helpfulness is most central to female friendships, whereas shared activities and similar interests are most central to males (Weiss and Lowenthal, 1975;Aukett et al, 1988) and that females use more non-verbal expressions of affection (Rands and Levinger, 1979). Wright (1982), in reviewing this extensive literature, suggested that the essential difference in males' and females' friendships was that female friendships were 'face to face' whereas male friendships were 'side by side'. A similar view was put forward by Farrell (1986), and in Crawford's study (1977) these differences were obvious even at a definitional level: the most common elements in women's definitions were 'someone I can trust' and 'someone I can call on for help', whereas the most common elements in the men's definitions were 'someone whose Company I enjoy' and 'someone I go out with'.…”

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Friendships between Women: A Critical Review

Matthews¹,

O’Connor²

1993

Journal of Marriage and the Family

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“…Social support, and particularly the information sharing embedded within it, has long been considered integral to health and wellbeing (Carveth & Gottlieb, 1979;Eckenrode & Gore, 1981;Wellman & Gulia, 1999). Friendship ties are a significant component in the complex behavior that is manifest in the giving and receiving of help, and it is clear that men and women use friends differently during periods of life stress and duress (King & Terrance, 2006;Spencer & Pahl, 2006;Wright, 1982;Wright & Scanlon, 1991). It has also been established that it is not just the receiving of help that is supportive, but also there is a supportive element in knowing help is available even if one chooses not to use it (Antonucci & Jackson, 1990;Short, 1996).…”

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Information-seeking to support wellbeing: A pilot study of New Zealand men

Wellstead¹,

Norriss²

2014

Intnl. J. Wellbeing

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Abstract:In New Zealand, compared to women men have poor health outcomes in a range of domains. Men also report barriers (both personal and structural) in seeking information to improve health and wellbeing. This paper reports a pilot project that investigated the informationseeking of New Zealand men during episodes of mental and physical ill health. The research investigated the ways in which information can be provided to encourage men to engage in information-seeking in a more timely way to improve their health and wellbeing. Results suggest that New Zealand men face considerable barriers accessing information and support and that the pathways to care are often unclear or absent. These findings demonstrate challenges and opportunities to service providers in terms of engaging men. Further research opportunities are also discussed.

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Men's friendships, women's friendships and the alleged inferiority of the latter

Cited by 176 publications

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What can be learned about peer effects using college roommates? Evidence from new survey data and students from disadvantaged backgrounds

What can be learned about peer effects using college roommates? Evidence from new survey data and students from disadvantaged backgrounds

Friendships between Women: A Critical Review

Information-seeking to support wellbeing: A pilot study of New Zealand men

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