RT Article
T1 Do birds of a feather really flock together?: friendships, self-control similarity and deviant behaviour
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 57
IS 5
SP 1208
OP 1229
A1 Boman, John H.
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1564973026
AB In addition to research consistently linking self-control to crime, a person’s level of self-control is hypothesized to be the root cause of why friendships form. Namely, people with low self-control should ‘flock together’ in highly deviant friendships, and, inversely, persons with high self-control should ‘flock together’ in non-deviant friendships. Using dyadic friendship data, this study examines the extent to which self-control similarity, termed self-control ‘homophily’, exists and what implications it carries for deviance. Using hierarchical linear modelling, results demonstrate that friends’ levels of self-control are dissimilar and fail to interact in relation to crime. Instead, differences in friends’ levels of self-control may be more strongly related to crime, failing to support Gottfredson and Hirschi’s hypothesis.
K1 Homophily
K1 Friendships
K1 Self-control
K1 Deviance
K1 Devianz
K1 Homophilie
DO 10.1093/bjc/azw067