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Children’s social networks in developmental psychology: A network approach to capture and describe early social environments
Psychologists are interested in understanding how early social environments impact children’s behavior and cognition. Early social environments are comprised of social relationships; however, there have been relatively few tools available to quantify the depth and breadth of children’s social relati...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9614093/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36312073 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1009422 |
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author | Burke, Nicole Brezack, Natalie Woodward, Amanda |
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description | Psychologists are interested in understanding how early social environments impact children’s behavior and cognition. Early social environments are comprised of social relationships; however, there have been relatively few tools available to quantify the depth and breadth of children’s social relationships. We harnessed the power of social networks to demonstrate that networks can be used to describe children’s early social environments. Descriptive data from American children aged 6 months–5 years (n = 280; 47% female, 56% White) demonstrates that network properties can be used to provide a quantitative analysis of children’s early social environments and highlights how these environments vary across development. Social network methodology will provide researchers with a comprehensive picture of children’s early social experiences and improve studies exploring individual differences. |
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spelling | pubmed-96140932022-10-29 Children’s social networks in developmental psychology: A network approach to capture and describe early social environments Burke, Nicole Brezack, Natalie Woodward, Amanda Front Psychol Psychology Psychologists are interested in understanding how early social environments impact children’s behavior and cognition. Early social environments are comprised of social relationships; however, there have been relatively few tools available to quantify the depth and breadth of children’s social relationships. We harnessed the power of social networks to demonstrate that networks can be used to describe children’s early social environments. Descriptive data from American children aged 6 months–5 years (n = 280; 47% female, 56% White) demonstrates that network properties can be used to provide a quantitative analysis of children’s early social environments and highlights how these environments vary across development. Social network methodology will provide researchers with a comprehensive picture of children’s early social experiences and improve studies exploring individual differences. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-10-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9614093/ /pubmed/36312073 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1009422 Text en Copyright © 2022 Burke, Brezack and Woodward. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Burke, Nicole Brezack, Natalie Woodward, Amanda Children’s social networks in developmental psychology: A network approach to capture and describe early social environments |
title | Children’s social networks in developmental psychology: A network approach to capture and describe early social environments |
title_full | Children’s social networks in developmental psychology: A network approach to capture and describe early social environments |
title_fullStr | Children’s social networks in developmental psychology: A network approach to capture and describe early social environments |
title_full_unstemmed | Children’s social networks in developmental psychology: A network approach to capture and describe early social environments |
title_short | Children’s social networks in developmental psychology: A network approach to capture and describe early social environments |
title_sort | children’s social networks in developmental psychology: a network approach to capture and describe early social environments |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9614093/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36312073 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1009422 |
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