Note: This workshop was jointly held with Center for Experimental Research in Social Sciences, Hokkaido University.
Date: September 7, 2009
(Monday) 10:30-12:00
Location: Hokkaido University, Faculty of Letters, room E204
Speakers: Chyi-in Wu (Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Title: “Luminous Shine versus Dark Shadow: The Duality of Late Adolescent's Friendship Network”
Participants: Toshio Yamagishi, Tatsuya Kameda, Masaki Yuki, Nobuyuki Takahashi, Keiko Ishii, Others (7 participants): Total 12 participants
Contents:
Most previous studies have focused on the positive side of
adolescents' friendship networks, emphasizing on the significant and
“good” effects on adolescents' developmental outcomes. Our recent
research findings have noticed a rivalry-like relationship that may
exist in daily friendship interaction, indicating that friendship
network somehow follows a forward-backward or an intimate-solitary
trajectory, and which implies some crucial friendship characteristics,
such as changing, dynamic and instable over time. In order to get a
thorough understanding on adolescents' friendship, we have launched a
project from September,2008, collecting and recording changes of nine
high school students' friendship networks periodically. Since the
“shadow” side of adolescents' “dislike” network friendship
characteristics for long is left ignored and unclear, this project
intends not only to recognize the “sunny” side of adolescents'
friendship networks, but the “dark” side of adolescents' friendship
characteristics.
By conducting this panel study, we attempt at first, to describe
on the reality of high school students' friendship dynamics over time
with their monthly nominations, trying to find out for instance, will
adolescents' friendship contain two facets, that one is friend and the
other is enemy? Or, will a friendship network display an overlapping
over time, representing a shift and coexistence of both sides,
implying a duality characteristic?
We therefore launch a pilot study to model the changing dynamics
of friendship network over time, aiming to sketch networks from
unknown to diverse developments. Gender issue is also concerned in
order to investigate gender difference on treating daily meetings. Our
primary results show that (1) friendship networks truly display a
great and unstable diversity, an overlapping “frenemy” network truly
coexists on both sides, implying a duality characteristic on
friendship dynamics. (2) Enemy network is more likely among boys,
while those with higher competitive characteristics tend to get
involved in frenemy situation. (3) Boys nominate their enemies more
overly, while girls coverly.
 
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