Changing Climates of Conflict: A Social Network Experiment in 56 Schools, New Jersey, 2012-2013

The data in this collection are social network data drawn from a large-scale field experiment. Theories of human behavior suggest that individuals attend to the behavior of certain people in their community to understand what is socially normative and adjust their own behavior in response. This experiment tested these theories by randomizing an anti-conflict intervention across 56 New Jersey public middle schools, with 24,191 students. After having comprehensively measured every school's social network, randomly selected seed groups of 20-32 students from randomly selected schools were assigned to an intervention that encouraged public stances against conflict at school. The data allowed for comparisons between treatment and control groups, and also provided variables to analyze social networks to examine the impact of social referents. Surveys were conducted at the start and end of the 2012-2013 school year, the year in which the experiment was conducted. The survey data contains social network variables based on the peers with whom the respondent chooses to spend time. Survey data also include respondents' perceived descriptive and prescriptive norms of conflict at the schools surveyed, as well as administrative data on the schools and demographics of respondents. The collection includes one dataset, with 482 variables for 24,471 cases. Demographic variables in the collection include gender, grade, age, height, weight, race/ethnicity, language, household characteristics, and demographic variables obtained from school administrative records.

本数据集收录了源于大规模实地实验的社交网络数据。人类行为理论表明，个体倾向于关注其社区中特定人群的行为，以理解社会规范并据此调整自身行为。该实验通过在56所新泽西州公立中学中随机实施反冲突干预措施，对24,191名学生进行了测试。在全面测量每所学校社交网络的基础上，从随机选取的学校中随机选取了20-32名学生的种子群体，分配到鼓励在学校公开反对冲突的干预措施中。数据允许对处理组和对照组进行对比，并提供了分析社交网络以考察社会参照物影响的变量。在2012-2013学年，即实验进行的年份，对调查对象在学年伊始和结束时进行了调查。调查数据包含了基于受访者选择共度时光的同伴的社会网络变量，同时还包括了受访者对调查学校冲突的描述性和规范性规范的感知，以及关于学校和受访者人口统计的行政数据。该数据集包含一个数据集，包含482个变量，针对24,471个案例。数据集中的人口统计变量包括性别、年级、年龄、身高、体重、种族/民族、语言、家庭特征以及从学校行政记录中获得的人口统计变量。