Gender differences in social network development via mobile phone text messages: A longitudinal study

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 691-713

  Igarashi, Tasuku ^a   Takai, Jiro ^a   Yoshida, Toshikazu ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

First year undergraduate students; Mobile phone text messages; Selective interpersonal relationship theory; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 27644583673     PISSN: 02654075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265407505056492     Document Type: Article

References (63)

1. Achuthan, S. B., Rao, S. B., & Rao, A. R. (1982). The number of symmetric edges in a digraph with prescribed out-degrees. In K. S. Vijayan & N. M. Singhi (Eds.), Proceedings of the seminar on combinatorics and applications in honour of Professor S. S. Shrinkhande on his 65th birthday (pp. 8-20). Calcutta: Indian Statistical Institute.
2. Altman, I., & Taylor, D. A. (1973). Social penetration: The development of interpersonal relationships. New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston.
3. Babchuk, N. (1965). Primary friends and kin: A study of the associations of middle class couples. Social Forces, 43, 483-493.
4. Boneva, B., Kraut, R., & Frohlich, D. (2001). Using e-mail for personal relationships: The difference gender makes. American Behavioral Scientist, 45, 530-549.
5. Booth, A. (1972). Sex and social participation. American Sociological Review, 37, 183-192.
6. Brewer, D., & Webster, C. M. (1999). Forgetting of friends and its effects on measuring friendship networks. Social Networks, 21, 361-373.
7. Caldwell, M. A., & Peplau, L. A. (1982). Sex differences in same-sex friendships. Sex Roles, 8, 721-732.
8. Deaux, K. (1976). The behavior of women and men. Monterey, CA: Brooks/Cole.
9. Dindia, K., & Allen, M. (1992). Sex differences in self-disclosure: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 112, 106-124.
10. Duck, S. (1975). Personality similarity and friendship choices by adolescents. European Journal of Social Psychology, 5, 351-365.
11. Fienberg, S., & Wasserman, S. (1981). Categorical data analysis of single sociometric relations. In S. Leinhardt (Ed.), Sociological methodology (pp. 156-192). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
12. Freeman, L. C. (1979). Centrality in social networks: Conceptual clarification. Social Networks, 7, 215-239.
13. Freeman, L. C. (2000). Visualizing social networks. Journal of Social Structure, 1. Available [accessed 27 January 2005]: http://www2.heinz.cmu.edu/ project/INSNA/joss/vsn.html
14. Freeman, L. C., Webster, C. M., & Kirke, D. M. (1998). Exploring social structure using dynamic three-dimensional color images. Social Networks, 20, 109-118.
15. Fruchterman, T. M. J., & Reingold, E. M. (1991). Graph drawing by force-directed placement. Software Practice and Experience, 21, 1129-1164.
16. Furutani, K., Sakata, K., & Kohguchi, H. (2003). Dousei yujin kankei ni okeru shitashisa no henka to keitai meiru riyou ni yoru jiko kaiji no kanren [Changes in intimacy in same-sex friendships and self-disclosure via mobile phone text message communication]. In Proceedings of the 50th annual meeting of the Japanese Group Dynamics Association (pp. 266-267), Kyoto, Japan [in Japanese].
17. Granovetter, M. S. (1973). The strength of weak ties. American Journal of Sociology, 78, 1360-1380.
18. Hampton, K., & Wellman, B. (2001). Long distance community in the network society: Contact and support beyond netville. American Behavioral Scientist, 45, 476-495.
19. Hayashi, N., & Yamagishi, T. (1998). Selective play: Choosing partners in an uncertain world. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2, 276-289.
20. Hays, R. B., & Oxley, D. (1986). Social network development and functioning during a life transition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50, 305-313.
21. Hirschi, T. (1969). Causes of delinquency. Berkeley: University of California Press.
22. Holland, P. W., & Leinhardt, S. (1981). An exponential family of probability distributions for directed graphs. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 76, 33-50.
23. Hubert, L. J., & Schultz, J. (1975). Quadratic assignment as a general data analysis strategy. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 29, 190-241.
24. Igarashi, T., & Yoshida, T. (2003). The effect of the use of mobile phone text messages on freshmen's loneliness during the transition to college. Japanese Journal of Psychology, 74, 379-385 [in Japanese with English abstract].
25. japan.internet.com. & Infoplant. (2001). Half of population use mobile phone text messages more than twice a day [in Japanese]. Available [accessed 27 January 2005]: http://japan.internet.com/research/20010411/1.html
26. Joinson, A. N. (2001). Self-disclosure in computer-mediated communication: The role of self-awareness and visual anonymity. European Journal of Social Psychology, 31, 177-192.
27. Karasawa, M. (1991). Toward an assessment of social identity: The structure of group identification and its effects on in-group evaluations. British Journal of Social Psychology, 30, 293-307.
28. Karweit, N., & Hansell, S. (1983). Sex differences in adolescent relationships: Friendships and status. In J. L. Epstein & N. Karweit (Eds.), Friends in school: Patterns of selection and influence in secondary schools (pp. 115-130). New York: Academic Press.
29. Katz, L., & Powell, J. H. (1955). Measurement of the tendency toward reciprocation choice. Sociometry, 18, 659-665.
30. Kraut, R., Patterson, M., Lundmark, V., Kiesler, S., Mukophadhyay, T., & Scherlis, W. (1998). Internet paradox: A social technology that reduces social involvement and psychological well-being? American Psychologist, 53, 1017-1031.
31. Ling, R., & Yttri, B. (2002). Hyper-coordination via mobile phones in Norway. In J. E. Katz & M. Aakhus (Eds.), Perpetual contact: Mobile communication, private talk, public performance (pp. 139-169). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
32. Macromill. (2002). A questionnaire for online matchmaking in 2002 [in Japanese]. Available [accessed 27 January 2005]: http://www.macromill.com/ client/r_data/20020605deai02/
33. Mäenpäa, P. (2001 ). Mobile communication as a way of urban life. In J. Gronow & A. Warde (Eds.), Ordinary consumption (pp. 107-124). London: Routledge.
34. Matsuda, M. (2000). Wakamono no yujin kankei to keitai denwa riyou: Kankei kihakuka ron kara sentakuteki kankei ron he [Interpersonal relationships among young people and mobile phone usage: From attenuant to selective relationships]. Shakai Jyouhougaku Kenkyu [Japanese Journal of Social Informatics], 4, 111-122 [in Japanese].
35. McKenna, K. Y A., Green, A. S., & Gleason, M. E. (2002). Relationship formation on the Internet: What's the big attraction? Journal of Social Issues, 58, 9-31.
36. Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications, Japan. (2004). White paper 2004: Information and communication in Japan. Available [accessed 27 January 2005]: http://www.johotsusintokei.soumu.go.jp/whitepaper/eng/WP2004/2004-index.html
37. Moore, G. (1990). Structural determinants of men's and women's personal networks. American Sociological Review, 55, 726-735.
38. Moroi, K. (2000). Cellular phone communication in adolescents. Japanese Journal of Telephone Counseling, 11, 79-89 [in Japanese with English abstract].
39. Nakamura, I. (2001). Keitai denwa to henyou suru nettowa-ku [Mobile phones and transfiguration of networks]. In O. Takagi & Y. Kawakami (Eds.), Jouhou koudou no shakai shinrigaku [Social psychology of behavioral informatics] (pp. 77-87). Tokyo: Kitaoji Shobo [in Japanese].
40. Parks, M. R., & Floyd, K. (1996). Making friends in cyberspace. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 1. Available [accessed 27 January 2005]: http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol1/issue4/parks.html
41. Parks, M. R., & Roberts, L. D. (1998). 'Making MOOsic': The development of personal relationships on line and a comparison to their off-line counterparts. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 15, 517-537.
42. Paul, E. L., & Brier, S. (2001). Friendsickness in the transition to college: Precollege predictors and college adjustment correlates. Journal of Counseling and Development, 79, 77-89.
43. Paxton, P., & Moody, J. (2003). Structure and sentiment: Explaining emotional attachment to group. Social Psychology Quarterly, 66, 34-47.
44. Pew Internet and American Life Project. (2005). A decade of adoption: How the internet has woven itself into American life. Available [accessed 27 January 2005]: http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/Internet_Status_2005.pdf
45. Putnam, R. D. (2000). Bowling alone: The collapse and revival of American community. New York: Simon & Schuster.
46. Quan-Haase, A., Wellman, B., Witte, J. C., & Hampton, K. N. (2002). Capitalizing on the Internet: Social contact, civic engagement, and sense of community. In B. Wellman & C. Haythornthwaite (Eds.), The Internet in everyday life (pp. 291-324). Oxford: Blackwell.
47. Rheingold, H. (2002). Smart mobs: The next social revolution. Cambridge: Perseus.
48. Richardson, D. C., & Richardson, J. S. (1992). The Kinmage - A tool for scientific communication. Protein Science, 1, 3-9.
49. Schiano, D. J., Chen, C., Ginsberg, J., Gretarsdottir, U., Huddleston, M., & Isaacs, E. (2002). Teen use of messaging media. Extended Abstracts of ACM CHI 2002: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 594-595). New York: ACM.
50. Scott, J. (2000). Social network analysis: A handbook (2nd ed.). London: Sage.
51. Skog, B. (2002). Mobiles and the Norwegian teen: Identity, gender and class. In J. E. Katz & M. Aakhus (Eds.), Perpetual contact: Mobile communication, private talk, public performance (pp. 255-273). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
52. Stephenson, K., & Zelen, M. (1989). Rethinking centrality: Methods and application. Social Networks, II, 1-37.
53. Tajfel, H. (1978). Social categorization, social identity and social comparison. In H. Tajfel (Ed.), Differentiation between social groups (pp. 61-76). London: Academic Press.
54. Tannen, D. (1992). You just don't understand: Women and men in conversation. London: Virago Press.
55. Tidwell, L. C., & Walther, J. B. (2002). Computer-mediated communication effects on disclosure, impressions, and interpersonal evaluations: Getting to know one another a bit at a time. Human Communication Research, 28, 317-348.
56. Tsuzuki, T., & Kimura, Y. (2000). Analyses of psychological factors of mediated communication in undergraduate students: Comparison of face-to-face, cell phone, email via cell phone, email via personal computer conditions. Japanese Journal of Applied Sociology, 42, 15-24 [in Japanese with English abstract].
57. Turner, J., Hogg, M. A., Oakes, P. J., Reicher, S. D., & Wetherell, M. S. (1987). Rediscovering the social group: A self-categorization theory. Oxford: Blackwell.
58. Walker, K. (1994). 'I'm no friends the way she's friends': Ideological and behavioral constructions of masculinity in men's friendships. Masculinities, 2, 38-55.
59. Walther, J. B. (1996). Computer-mediated communication: Impersonal, interpersonal, and hyperpersonal interaction. Communication Research, 23, 3-43.
60. Wasserman, S., & Faust, K. (1994). Social network analysis: Methods and applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
61. Wheeler, L., Reis, H., & Nezlek, J. (1983). Loneliness, social interaction, and sex roles. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 45, 943-953.
62. Wolak, J., Mitchell, K. J., & Finkelhor, D. (2003). Escaping or connecting? Characteristics of youth who form close online relationships. Journal of Adolescence, 26, 105-119.
63. Yuki, M., Maddux, W. W., Brewer, M. B., & Takemura, K. (2005). Cross-cultural differences in relationship- and group-based trust. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 48-62.