Birds of different feather flock together : associations between cross-racial friendships and children’s social and academic adjustment
department or school: Arts, Faculty of
department or school: Psychology, Department of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Qi, Hongyuan
issued: 2021-08-26T21:35:31Z
issued: 2021
related degree: Master of Arts - MA
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: As North American classrooms become increasingly diverse, it is important to examine children’s friendships with cross-racial classroom peers. The present study employed a short-term longitudinal design to investigate the bidirectional associations between cross-racial friendships and children’s social and academic adjustment. Participants were 583 elementary school children in western Canada, or the midwestern United States (4-10 years; 48% female; 143 Asian, 88 Black, 65 Hispanic or Latinx, 171 White, 116 mixed). Children’s adjustment (social preference, academic enablers, academic performance) and friendship nominations (reciprocated, received, given) were measured in fall and spring over one school year. Findings show that fall adjustment positively predicted spring reciprocated cross-racial friendships, but not vice-versa. Academic enablers and received cross-racial friendship nominations were positively and reciprocally related to one another. Fall same-racial friendships positively predicted spring academic performance and social preference. Effect sizes were small. Findings are discussed in the context of a multi-racial society.
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note: BIRDS OF DIFFERENT FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER: ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN CROSS-RACIAL FRIENDSHIPS AND CHILDREN’S SOCIAL AND ACADEMIC ADJUSTMENT by HONGYUAN QI B.A. (Honours), Simon Fraser University, 2015 Ph.D., Wilfrid Laurier University, 2019 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL STUDIES (Psychology) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver) August 2021 © Hongyuan Qi, 2021 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for acceptance, the thesis entitled: Birds of different feather flock together: Associations between cross-racial friendships and children’s social and academic adjustment Submitted by in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of in Examining Committee: Supervisor Psychology Supervisory Committee Member Psychology Supervisory Committee Member Hongyuan Qi Master of Arts Psychology Amori Yee Mikami, Psychology, UBC Connor Kerns, Psychology, UBC Joelle LeMoult, Psychology, UBC iii Abstract As North American classrooms become increasingly diverse, it is important to examine children’s friendships with cross-racial classroom peers. The present study employed a short-term longitudinal design to investigate the bidirectional associations between cross-racial friendships and children’s social and academic adjustment. Participants were 583 elementary school children in western Canada, or the midwestern United States (4-10 years; 48% female; 143 Asian, 88 Black, 65 Hispanic or Latinx, 171 White, 116 mixed). Children’s adjustment (social preference, academic enablers, academic performance) and friendship nominations (reciprocated, received, given) were measured in fall and spring over one school year. Findings show that fall adjustment positively predicted spring reciprocated cross-racial friendships, but not vice-versa. Academic enablers and received cross-racial friendshi…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2021-11
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0401725
language: eng
degree discipline: Psychology
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Mikami, Amori Yee
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/79470