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Van Rossem, Ronan; Vermande, Marjolijn; Völker, Beate; Baerveldt, Chris – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2015
Social capital is generally considered beneficial for students' school adjustment. This paper argues that social relationships among pupils generate social capital at both the individual and the class levels, and that each has its unique effect on pupils' performance and well-being. The sample in this study consists of 1036 children in 60…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Student Adjustment, Academic Achievement, Social Networks
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Weiqin, Eliza Leong; Campbell, Marilyn; Kimpton, Melanie; Wozencroft, Kelly; Orel, Alexandra – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2016
Online relationship formation through social networking sites helps to meet the developmental need for intimacy in emerging adults. Through the use of the "rich get richer" and the "social compensation" hypotheses, it is evident that personality characteristics such as extraversion and introversion impact online relationship…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Social Media, Personality Traits, Computer Mediated Communication
Chazon, Timothy Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation was designed to study the relationship between Social Capital and teacher Job Satisfaction for 11 selected North Carolina Middle Schools. This study uses the learning organizational theory and social capital theory as theoretical constructs for studying the complex relationships between school as a Learning Organization (LO),…
Descriptors: Expertise, Human Capital, Middle Schools, Job Satisfaction