Sex differences in the structure and stability of children’s playground social networks and their overlap with friendship relations

Sex differences in social networks

Table 2

Descriptive Statistics for the Number of Best Friends and Friends, the Overlap Between Friendship
and Social Networks by Sex at Time 2.

	Male		Female		Total
	Mean	S.D.	Mean	S.D.	Mean	S.D.	N
	Friendship relations
Number of reciprocal best friends	4.94	5.50	4.47	3.87	4.68	4.65	121
Number of reciprocal friends	13.57	8.55	13.93	8.59	13.77	8.54	121
	Social network -	friendship overlap
% core that are best friends	46.98	40.44	53.08	41.10	49.87	40.50	57
% core that are friends	72.70	34.61	97.53	8.89	84.46	28.52	57
% of group that are best friends	19.91	27.10	41.88	38.17	31.09	34.84	112
% of group that are friends	44.24	33.20	65.80	33.37	55.21	34.86	112
% best friends that are in core	48.45	47.77	31.17	43.68	38.53	46.03	94
% friends that are in core	33.10	37.90	21.44	29.97	26.63	34.08	119
% of best friends in group	90.15	26.65	71.67	40.95	79.53	36.58	94
% of friends in group	77.05	28.21	47.02	35.95	60.40	35.88	119

Note. Analyses are presented for Time 2 data only but replicate findings at Time 1.