Developing community structure on the sidelines: A social network analysis of youth sport league parents

In this study, we examine the social networks formed at the structural level by parents of community-based youth sport programs. Employing Quadratic Assignment Procedures t-test and Quadratic Assignment Procedures correlation, we empirically tested changes in recalled network density and homophily effects of parents (n = 391) at a community-level youth sport league located in the Southeastern USA. Our findings suggest that parents’ social networks significantly increased in density from pre- to post-season. However, while we found no significant homophily effects based on socioeconomic characteristics, we did observe significant racial homophily effects for participants in basketball and baseball/softball.
Source: The Social Science Journal - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research