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Social networks are shaped by culturally contingent assessments of social competence
Cultural outsiders, like immigrants or international students, often struggle to make friends. We propose that one barrier to social connection is not knowing what it means to be socially competent in the host culture. First-year students at a U.S. business school (N = 1328) completed a social netwo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10192412/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37198298 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-34723-6 |
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author | Chadha, Sareena Kleinbaum, Adam M. Wood, Adrienne |
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description | Cultural outsiders, like immigrants or international students, often struggle to make friends. We propose that one barrier to social connection is not knowing what it means to be socially competent in the host culture. First-year students at a U.S. business school (N = 1328) completed a social network survey and rated their own social competence and that of several peers. International students were rated by peers as less socially competent than U.S. students, especially if they were from nations more culturally dissimilar to the U.S. International students’ self-reported competence ratings were uncorrelated with peers’ judgments. Social network analysis revealed international students were less central to their peer networks than U.S. students, although this gap was reduced if peers evaluated them as socially competent. Peer-reported competence mediated the effects of international student status on social network centrality. Since learning local norms takes time, we suggest inclusivity will require host communities to define social competence more broadly. |
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spelling | pubmed-101924122023-05-19 Social networks are shaped by culturally contingent assessments of social competence Chadha, Sareena Kleinbaum, Adam M. Wood, Adrienne Sci Rep Article Cultural outsiders, like immigrants or international students, often struggle to make friends. We propose that one barrier to social connection is not knowing what it means to be socially competent in the host culture. First-year students at a U.S. business school (N = 1328) completed a social network survey and rated their own social competence and that of several peers. International students were rated by peers as less socially competent than U.S. students, especially if they were from nations more culturally dissimilar to the U.S. International students’ self-reported competence ratings were uncorrelated with peers’ judgments. Social network analysis revealed international students were less central to their peer networks than U.S. students, although this gap was reduced if peers evaluated them as socially competent. Peer-reported competence mediated the effects of international student status on social network centrality. Since learning local norms takes time, we suggest inclusivity will require host communities to define social competence more broadly. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-05-17 /pmc/articles/PMC10192412/ /pubmed/37198298 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-34723-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Chadha, Sareena Kleinbaum, Adam M. Wood, Adrienne Social networks are shaped by culturally contingent assessments of social competence |
title | Social networks are shaped by culturally contingent assessments of social competence |
title_full | Social networks are shaped by culturally contingent assessments of social competence |
title_fullStr | Social networks are shaped by culturally contingent assessments of social competence |
title_full_unstemmed | Social networks are shaped by culturally contingent assessments of social competence |
title_short | Social networks are shaped by culturally contingent assessments of social competence |
title_sort | social networks are shaped by culturally contingent assessments of social competence |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10192412/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37198298 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-34723-6 |
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