Birds of a Feather Flock Together and Opposites Attract: The Nonlinear Relationship between Personality and Friendship

Autor/inn/en	Liu, Haiyan; Zhang, Zhiyong
Titel	Birds of a Feather Flock Together and Opposites Attract: The Nonlinear Relationship between Personality and Friendship
Quelle	1 (2021) 1, S.34-52 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
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Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Personality Traits; Friendship; Interpersonal Attraction; Correlation; Social Psychology; Social Networks; Network Analysis; Interpersonal Relationship; Psychological Studies; Individual Characteristics; Factor Analysis; Undergraduate Students; Foreign Countries; Personality Measures; Likert Scales; Drinking; Academic Achievement; Gender Differences; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Freundschaft; Interpersonale Anziehung; Korrelation; Sozialpsychologie; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Netzplantechnik; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Personality traits; Faktorenanalyse; Ausland; Likert-Skala; Trinken; Schulleistung; Geschlechterkonflikt
Abstract	Whether birds of a feather flock together or opposites attract is a classical research question in social and personality psychology. In most existing studies, correlation-based techniques are commonly used to study the similarity/dissimilarity among social entities. Social network data comprises two primary components: actors and the possible social relations between them. It, therefore, has observations on both the dyads with and without social relations. Because of the availability of the baseline group (dyads without social relations), it is possible to contrast the two groups of dyads using social network analysis techniques. This study aims to illustrate how to use social network analysis techniques to address psychological research questions. Specifically, we will investigate how the similarity or dissimilarity of actor's characteristics relates to the likelihood for them to build social relations. By analyzing a college friendship network, we found the quadratic relations between personality similarity and friendship. Both very similar and very dissimilar personalities boost friendship among college students. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01