The Research of Social Network Analysis on College Students' Interactive Relations

Research Content

In the context of interpersonal interactions, social network is usually divided into three types, i.e. friendship network, information network and consultancy network. This paper studies universities and college students on their interpersonal network from the perspective of emotional support. Emotional support refers to students’ interactive experience during their study and life, including some intimate emotional actions and emotionally supportive utterances such as “participate in activities together”, “eat together”, “chat and communicate” and so on.

In conclusion, the research content of this paper includes: (1) the basic situation of the interpersonal relationships formed through the emotional support network of students from the Excellence Class majoring in software engineering; (2) the mutual influence of interpersonal relationships and academic performance; (3) the similarities and differences of interpersonal relationship networks of girls and boys.

Participants

The participants of this research are students from Excellence Class One of the software engineering major of some university. The Excellent Class is a strategy proposed by Chinese Ministry of Education to train excellent engineers in colleges. Members of Excellent Class are selected from ordinary classes through some examinations. There are in total 30 students, nine of whom are girls and the other 21 are boys. The average GPA of the whole class is 3.3514 while that of girls is 3.420088, slightly higher than the class average. And the total GPA of girls is also higher than boys’.