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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.