567.2
Behavior Homophily and The Dynamic Network Distance In A Combination Of Friendship and Antipathy Networks

Monday, July 14, 2014: 5:50 PM
Room: 416
Oral Presentation
Chih-Yao CHANG , Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Chyiin WU , Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Hwai-Chung HO , Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Behavior Homophily and the Dynamic Network Distance in a Combination of Friendship and Antipathy Networks

Chih-Yao Chang

Institute of Statistical Science

Academia Sinica

Chyi-In Wu

Institute of Sociology

Academia Sinica

Hwai-Chung Ho

Institute of Statistical Science

Academia Sinica

Studies have confirmed a strong tendency of behavior homophily in a social group. Prior research mainly focused on studying the association of a bunch of friendship network features and behaviors to confirm such tendency. However, interpersonal relationships are naturally managed in multiple ways, and social relationships change over time, same as individual’s behaviors. Positive, high intimate friendship can play a significant effect on promoting behavior homophily; on the contrary, negative, low intimate antipathy relationship might downplay it. Thus, in this study, we, methodologically, recognize the necessity of change and multiplexity of relationship and behaviors to redefining the tendency of behavior homophily. Thereby, we aggregate structural network effects and transform them into an index of network distance from two opposed social relationships (i.e., friendship network and antipathy networks) in a longitudinal data to redefine the association of dynamic network distance in relationship multiplexity and group members’ behavior homophily over time.