Frequent and/or Durable? The Predictive Impact of Initial Face-to-Face Contacts on the Formation and Evolution of Students’ Developmental Peer Network Relationships — Oak Academic Publishing
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Frequent and/or Durable? The Predictive Impact of Initial Face-to-Face Contacts on the Formation and Evolution of Students’ Developmental Peer Network Relationships
Institute of Psychology, Department of Industrial/Organizational and Social Psychology, Technische Universit?t Braun-schweig, Braunschweig, Germany
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Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence Group (CSAI), Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands
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Research Center for Information System Design (ITeG), University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
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Institute of Psychology, Department of Industrial/Organizational and Social Psychology, Technische Universit?t Braun-schweig, Braunschweig, Germany
1 Institute of Psychology, Department of Industrial/Organizational and Social Psychology, Technische Universit?t Braun-schweig, Braunschweig, Germany
2 Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence Group (CSAI), Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands
3 Research Center for Information System Design (ITeG), University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
4 Institute of Psychology, Department of Industrial/Organizational and Social Psychology, Technische Universit?t Braun-schweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Despite the relevance of relationships to others acting towards advancing a person’s career for individual career development, there is little research on how developmental relationships emerge and evolve over time. This two-year longitudinal study analyses the predictive impact of frequency and duration of initial face-to-face social interaction among newcomer students measured via RFID technology. Results from stochastic actor-oriented models suggest that the more frequent and durable initial contacts were at the first encounter, the more likely actors will create a developmental relationship, supporting proximity and mere-exposure-effect theory. Moreover, they show long-term effect tendencies of initial contacts’ frequency on the network’s evolution.
KeywordsDevelopmental Network FormationDevelopmental Network EvolutionPeer NetworkFace-to-Face ProximityStochastic Actor-Oriented Model
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