Abstract
The Social Network Analysis offers a view of social phenomena based on interactions. The aim of this study is to compare social reality through the cohesion variable and analyse its relationship with the resilience of university students. This information is useful to work with the students academically and to optimise the properties of the network that have an influence in academic performance. This is a descriptive transversal study with 90 students from the first and third year of the Nursing Degree. Cohesion variables from the support and friendship networks and the level of resilience were gathered. The UCINET programme was used for network analysis and the SPSS programme for statistical analysis. The students’ friendship and support networks show high intra-classroom cohesion although there are no differences between the support networks and friendship or minimal contact networks in both of the courses used for the study. The network cohesion indicators show less cohesion in the third year. No correlations were found between cohesion and resilience. Resilience does not appear to be an attribute related to cohesion or vice versa.
Highlights
Human beings interact daily with a vast network of people, and the relationships that we establish among ourselves play an important part in our lives
The results obtained for the cohesion indicators of support networks and friendship and minimal contact networks in the first and third years, show less cohesion in the higher year
We can see that the cohesion is high but lower than that in the minimal contact network, as is logical given that it is a network that is characterized for having fewer friends, but with stronger relationships
Summary
Human beings interact daily with a vast network of people, and the relationships that we establish among ourselves play an important part in our lives. The theoretical and methodological paradigm of the Social Network Analysis (SNA) allows us to (a) evaluate the context of the relationships in an empirical manner, and (b) record contexts of social interactions that (c) determine the behaviour of the people that are a part of said contexts [6]. Within this methodological and research context, the analysis of interactions can be carried out from a group perspective. Public Health 2018, 15, 2119; doi:10.3390/ijerph15102119 www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph
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