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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychol. 2011 Jul;47(4):1141–1152. doi: 10.1037/a0024091

Table 3.

Results of the Cross-Sectional Exponential Random Graph Models of friendship at Time 1 by Activity Type

Model 3

95% Confidence Interval
Effect Estimate (standard error) Lower bound Upper bound Odds ratio
Friendship probability −6.12 (0.17) −6.45 −5.79 0.002
Friendship skew −1.56 (0.04) −1.65 −1.48 0.21
Homophily
  Gender 0.78 (0.02) 0.74 0.82 2.18
  Race 0.60 (0.05) 0.50 0.69 1.82
  Grade 2.37 (0.16) 2.06 2.67 10.70
  SES 0.17 (0.01) 0.14 0.19 1.19
  GPA 0.57 (0.03) 0.51 0.66 1.77
  Problem behavior 0.78 (0.06) 0.66 0.90 2.18
  Physical health 0.32 (0.04) 0.24 0.40 1.38
  Depression 0.12 (0.03) 0.04 0.16 1.13
Network structure
  Open triads −0.35 (0.01) −0.37 −0.32 0.70
  Closed triads 1.22 (0.03) 1.17 1.27 3.39
Activity type
  Sports 0.56 (0.02) 0.52 0.61 1.75
  Arts 0.85 (0.04) 0.77 0.94 2.34
  Academics 0.66 (0.07) 0.52 0.80 1.93

Note. All effects are significant at p < .001.