Hays R B, Oxley D
J Pers Soc Psychol. 1986 Feb;50(2):305-13. doi: 10.1037//0022-3514.50.2.305.
A 12-week longitudinal study of the development of social support networks among college freshmen is presented. Eighty-nine male and female students who lived either in university residence halls or at home with their parents completed a series of questionnaires in which they described their social networks while attending college and their adaptation to university life. In accord with an ecological view of social support, the structural and functional characteristics of the freshmen's networks were found to vary with the focal individual's gender, living situation, and the temporal stage of the network. Further, network characteristics were significantly associated with the freshmen's successful adaptation to college, though the relative adaptiveness of particular network characteristics varied over time.
本文介绍了一项针对大学新生社交支持网络发展的为期12周的纵向研究。89名居住在大学宿舍或与父母同住的男女学生完成了一系列问卷调查，他们在问卷中描述了自己在大学期间的社交网络以及对大学生活的适应情况。根据社会支持的生态学观点，发现新生社交网络的结构和功能特征会因核心个体的性别、生活状况以及社交网络的时间阶段而有所不同。此外，社交网络特征与新生成功适应大学生活显著相关，尽管特定社交网络特征的相对适应性会随时间变化。
