 Misery Implicitly Loves Company: Implicit Homophily and Bully VictimizationYasmine Saraf, Laureen Khalil, Jarryd Willis, Samantha Yim, Gareth Disler, Jiani Li and Tugral Zeb SAGE Open, 2021, vol. 11, issue 3, 21582440211038360 Abstract: This study focuses on the formation of bullied individuals’ friendships and romantic relationships. Individuals bullied in their past may be more likely to form connections with those who share similar oppressive experiences. Thus, we investigated the possibility that implicit homophily underlies the formation of interpersonal relationships among previously bullied individuals. Moreover, we investigated whether these individuals were aware of their friends’ and romantic partners’ similarly oppressive experiences prior to initiating the relationship. Our findings suggest that the young adults in our sample bullied in grade school are significantly more likely to have a close friend and or significant other who also experienced bullying. The findings of this study contribute to the relatively small, yet growing, body of research on implicit homophily, add to research extending homophily processes to bullies and victims, and are in line with research suggesting that deselection (a form of induced homophily) can coexist with homophily by personal preference. Keywords: homophily; bully victimization; interpersonal relationships (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:sagope:v:11:y:2021:i:3:p:21582440211038360 DOI: 10.1177/21582440211038360 Access Statistics for this article More articles in SAGE Open |
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