Values in adolescent friendship networks

Kindschi, Martin; Cieciuch, Jan; Davidov, Eldad; Ehlert, Alexander; Rauhut, Heiko; Tessone, Claudio J.; Algesheimer, René

doi:10.1017/nws.2019.16

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“…During people's childhood, boys and girls develop different social value orientations, either by nature or nurture (see [12] for a review). Driven by the large proportion of same-sex friendships (e.g., [41,42]), these differences become more pronounced during childhood and early adolescence [12]. With the end of school education, gender segregation declines [43], and so SVO harmonizes between genders.…”

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The Development of Prosociality: Evidence for a Negative Association between Age and Prosocial Value Orientation from a Representative Sample in Austria

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While the ontogeny of prosociality during infancy, childhood, and adolescence has received substantial attention over the last decades, little is known about how prosocial preferences develop beyond emerging adulthood. Recent evidence suggests that the previously observed positive association between age and prosocial preferences is less robust than assumed. This study reports results on the association between social preferences, age, gender, and education from an Austrian representative sample (N = 777, aged 16–94 years) in which incentivized social value orientations (SVO) were measured along with various other sociodemographic characteristics. The analyses confirm that men are less prosocial than women, however, mainly during emerging adulthood (16–25 years). At the same time, the decline of prosociality is stronger among women leading to a convergence of prosociality between men and women as they age. Overall, we find that a prosocial value orientation is negatively correlated with people’s age. We suspect that the susceptibility of peoples’ social preferences to the preferences of others in their social environment is a critical factor unifying these different observations in the development of prosociality. We hypothesize that the opposite associations between age and SVO observed in two previous studies using unincentivized measures of social preferences are explained in parts by an age-related change in social desirability, measurement inaccuracy (continuous vs. categorical), and cross-cultural differences promoting competitive preferences among emerging adults in Japan. Moreover, we find that political orientations towards right-wing populists are consistently associated with less prosocial preferences, while education seems to be positively associated with prosociality. Overall, our study highlights the importance of conducting representative studies using incentivized measurements across cultures.

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The Development of Prosociality: Evidence for a Negative Association between Age and Prosocial Value Orientation from a Representative Sample in Austria

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“…In total, the dataset consisted of four groups, that is, two age cohorts in two countries. Appendix 1 includes more detailed information on the composition of the sample (for further details and documentation, see also Kindschi et al (2019) and Becker et al (2020)).…”

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Values and Attitudes Toward Immigrants Among School Children in Switzerland and Poland

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Research on key determinants of negative attitudes toward immigration has often suggested that values held by individuals systematically explain such sentiments. Universalists appear to have more positive and conservatives more negative attitudes. So far, however, these insights are based on studies using adult samples. In our study, we analyze these relations among children and adolescents. For the analysis, we utilized a Swiss-Polish panel dataset (2015–2017, N = 5,332) with three time points collected among school children aged 8–19 years. We employed autoregressive cross-lagged models. The results indicated that while universalism decreased negative attitudes toward immigrants, the expected effect for conformity-tradition was not found.

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“…At the same time, friendship in this period has an impact on adolescent's many aspects such as his/her formation of values, choice of profession, and the development of identity (Döğücü 2004;Wang & Gu, 2019). For example, Kindschi et al (2019) found that adolescents' value systems evolve in a continuous cycle of internal validation through the selection and enactment of goals-thereby experiencing both congruence and conflicts-and external validation through social comparison among their friends.…”

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Social Appearance Anxiety and Dimensions of Identity as Predictors of Friendship Quality among Adolescents

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The purpose of the current study was to investigate the relationships between social appearance anxiety, dimensions of identity, and friendship quality among adolescents. The sample of the research consisted of 285 adolescents (163 female and 122 male) attending Anatolian High School. The current study was conducted by correlational research design. The instruments of the study were The Utrecht-Management of Identity Commitments Scale (U-MICS), The Friendship Quality Scale, and The Social Appearance Anxiety Scale. The analyses of the study were carried out by SPSS 23.0 program. The study finding showed that friendship quality was negatively associated with social appearance anxiety, and positively associated with commitment and in-depth exploration. Also, the results showed that commitment and social appearance anxiety significantly predicted the level of friendship quality. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings were discussed.

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Values in adolescent friendship networks

Cited by 10 publications

References 90 publications

The Development of Prosociality: Evidence for a Negative Association between Age and Prosocial Value Orientation from a Representative Sample in Austria

The Development of Prosociality: Evidence for a Negative Association between Age and Prosocial Value Orientation from a Representative Sample in Austria

Values and Attitudes Toward Immigrants Among School Children in Switzerland and Poland

Social Appearance Anxiety and Dimensions of Identity as Predictors of Friendship Quality among Adolescents

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