Do Race and Ethnicity Matter Among Friends? Activities among Interracial, Interethnic, and Intraethnic Adolescent Friends

By Grace S Kao, K. Joyner. 2004

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Peer relationships in adolescence. (2009, methodology): “For example, using the Add Health data set, Kao and Joyner ( 2004 ) discovered that most adolescents named a peer from their own racial or ethnic group as a best friend, and the higher a peer was on respondents ’ list of five closest same - sex peers, the more likely they were to report engaging in…”
Perceived Social Support and Well Being: First-Year Student Experience in University. (2014, result): “This supports the argument in the literature that sharing a similar culture in terms of ethnicity, language and religion was considered as an important factor in creating friendship networks (Kao & Joyner, 2004; Kawabata & Crick, 2008; Levin, Van Laar, & Sidanius, 2003).”
A Developmental Science Approach to Reducing Prejudice and Social Exclusion: Intergroup Processes, Social‐Cognitive Development, and Moral Reasoning (2015, background): “Nonetheless, research also shows that cross-ethnic friendships compared to same-ethnic friendships, are pretty uncommon, less stable and decline with age (Kao & Joyner, 2004; Schneider, Dixon, & Udvari, 2007).”
Cross-ethnic friendships: Are they really rare? Evidence from secondary schools around London (2014, unknown): “Similarly, Kao and Joyner (2004) indicated that the quality of cross-ethnic friendships assessed by activities and time spent together was lower compared to the quality of same-ethnic friendships.”