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100 1 |a Mella-Defranchi Eliacim 
245 1 |a Gender Differences in Classroom Sympathy and Antipathy: A Digital Sociometric Study 
260 |b MDPI AG  |c 2025 
513 |a Journal Article 
520 3 |a Socioemotional relationships significantly influence students’ learning, development, and school well-being. This study explored gender differences in sympathy and antipathy based on data originally gathered via a digital platform primarily designed for mathematical learning. The platform administered a sociometric test to a large sample (3090 of fourth-grade students (mean age = 10.19 years, 47.7% girls) in the Chilean Metropolitan Region. Teachers facilitated the test, allowing students to nominate peers they liked and disliked. The study confirmed a trend of homophily in sympathy, with students preferring same-gender peers. It also revealed a gender disparity in antipathy: girls nominated an average of 5.27 disliked classmates (SD = 7.20), 1.45 more nominations than boys, with a Cohen’s d of 0.22. These findings provide insights to enhance school climate and address the mental health implications of social exclusion, considering gender differences. These results underscore the potential of scalable digital tools to support educators in monitoring peer dynamics and fostering inclusive, emotionally supportive school environments. 
653 |a Gender differences 
653 |a Nominations 
653 |a Behavior 
653 |a Peer relationships 
653 |a Students 
653 |a School environment 
653 |a Social exclusion 
653 |a Friendship 
653 |a Social anxiety 
653 |a Classrooms 
653 |a Aggressiveness 
653 |a Social interaction 
653 |a Social support 
653 |a Peers 
653 |a Preferences 
653 |a Well being 
653 |a Girls 
653 |a Mental depression 
653 |a Children & youth 
653 |a Mental health 
653 |a Gender identity 
653 |a Teenagers 
653 |a Sympathy 
653 |a Sociometry 
653 |a Depression (Psychology) 
653 |a Peer Relationship 
653 |a Males 
653 |a Social Status 
653 |a Adolescents 
653 |a Females 
653 |a Social Isolation 
653 |a Social Characteristics 
653 |a Social Problems 
653 |a Meta Analysis 
653 |a Interpersonal Competence 
653 |a Interpersonal Relationship 
653 |a Prosocial Behavior 
653 |a Child Development 
653 |a Emotional Problems 
653 |a Intimacy 
653 |a Aggression 
653 |a Antisocial Behavior 
653 |a Educational Environment 
653 |a Networks 
653 |a Behavior Problems 
700 1 |a Araya, Roberto 
773 0 |t Education Sciences  |g vol. 15, no. 7 (2025), p. 830-844 
786 0 |d ProQuest  |t Education Database 
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