Department of Human, Philosophical and Educational Sciences, University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano, Italy.
Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jul 22;19(15):8907. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19158907.
This study aimed to investigate differences in adolescents' social relationships with classmates of diverse gender, socioeconomic status, immigrant background, and academic achievement.
A population of 10th-grade students (N = 406,783; males = 50.3%; = 15.57 years, = 0.75) completed the Classmates Social Isolation Questionnaire (CSIQ), an instrument specifically designed to measure two distinct but correlated types of peer relationships in class: peer acceptance and peer friendship. To obtain reliable comparisons across diverse adolescent characteristics, the measurement invariance of the CSIQ was established by means of CFAs and then latent mean differences tests were performed.
Immigrant background, academic achievement, and socioeconomic status all proved to be important factors influencing relationships with classmates, while being a male or a female was less relevant. Being a first-generation immigrant adolescent appears to be the foremost risk factor for being less accepted by classmates, while having a low academic achievement is the greatest hindrance for having friends in the group of classmates, a finding that diverges from previous studies.
This population study suggests that adolescent characteristics (especially immigrant background, socioeconomic status, and academic achievement) seem to affect social relationships with classmates.
本研究旨在调查青少年与不同性别、社会经济地位、移民背景和学业成绩的同学的社会关系差异。
研究对象为 10 年级学生（N=406783；男生占 50.3%； =15.57 岁， =0.75），完成了同学社交隔离问卷（CSIQ），这是一种专门用于测量课堂上两种不同但相关的同伴关系的工具：同伴接受和同伴友谊。为了在不同的青少年特征之间进行可靠的比较，通过 CFA 建立了 CSIQ 的测量不变性，然后进行了潜在均值差异检验。
移民背景、学业成绩和社会经济地位都是影响与同学关系的重要因素，而性别则不那么重要。作为第一代移民青少年似乎是不太受同学欢迎的首要风险因素，而学业成绩低则是在同学群体中交朋友的最大障碍，这一发现与之前的研究不同。
这项人群研究表明，青少年特征（特别是移民背景、社会经济地位和学业成绩）似乎会影响与同学的社交关系。
