Calculation of Sociometric Indicators

Calculation of Sociometric Indicators

Tables

  • The Reciprocity table shows who chose who in the group and how many times.
  • The Mutual Relationships table shows the reciprocal relationships of children who choose each other.
  • Under the Frequency table, you can see how many choices each child received for certain questions.
  • The Summary table shows how many outgoing and incoming choices and how many reciprocal relationships a given child has, along with how many nominations he/she received in each category.
  • The Graph shows a visual representation of the responses received by category. If you want to see fewer than four categories, click on the indicator you don't want to see and the program will remove the unwanted indicator from the graph. You can do this with multiple indicators, for example if you only want to see the results of one category at a time.

Sociogram

The program also creates the frame of the sociogram. The thickness of the lines indicates the strength of the relationships, with red dots representing girls and blue dots representing boys. The dots can be dragged to the desired location by using the mouse. If you want to start over, click on the redraw button, if you want to save your work, click the pin button (so that when you return later the program will not reorder the dots back to the original circle but will save your ordering), and if you want to download your work, click the download button. 

IMPORTANT! The pin button is temporarily out of order. If you would like to save your work, draw the sociogram and click on the Download button to save it to your computer.

Calculated Indicators

    • Mutuality index
      Number of participants with contacts / Total number of participants
      Percentage of respondents with a mutual relationship

 

  • Density index
    Number of reciprocal relationships / Number of participants
    Ratio of reciprocal contacts to the number of respondents - it shows the average number of contacts per respondent
  • Cohesion index
    Number of mutual contacts / ( number of participants * ( number of participants - 1 ) ) / 2
    Indicates the percentage of realised relationships out of all possible contacts in the social environment
  • Indicator of reciprocal relationships
    Number of reciprocal contacts / Number of declared contacts
    Indicates the percentage of respondents' choices that were reciprocal
  • Group climate indicator
    dispersion of sympathy choices : dispersion of function choices
  • Significance index
    Number of secondarily and primarily significant participants / number of participants
  • Role index
    Number of participants with a role / number of participants (function, popularity and ability are shown separately as well)

Avarage ranges

The values below are the standards used in the 2021 survey on eSzocMet data, the adjoining short user guide is available on the link below: Guide to sociometric standards.

eSzocMet szociometria sztenderdek 2021

The following table from the research of Ferenc Gebauer (2008) can also be used to interpret the indicators and to place the class’ averages. A detailed description of the indicators can be found in the work of Ferenc Mérei: Hidden Network of Communities.

Szociometria sztenderdek

 

Sűrűségi index

Density index

Kölcsönösségi index

Mutuality index

Kohéziós index

Cohesion index

Viszonzott kapcsolatok mutatója

Indicator of reciprocal relationships

Csoportlégkör mutatója (bal oldal)

Group climate indicator (left side)

Csoportlégkör mutatója (jobb oldal)

Group climate indicator (right side)

Jelentőségindex

Significance index

Szerepindex

Role index

szórás

Standard deviation

Fél szórás

½ standard deviation

átlag

Mean/average

Átlag feletti

Above average

átlagos

Average

Átlag alatti

Below average

osztálylétszám

Class size

évfolyam

Grade

iskolatípus

Type of school

gimnázium

High school

Általános iskola

Primary school

szakközépiskola

Vocational secondary school

Strukturális mutatók

Structural indicators

Kohéziós mutatók

Cohesion indicators

Kölcsönösségi index

Mutuality index

Sűrűségi mutató

Density index

Kohéziós index

Cohesion index

Viszonzott kapcsolatok mutatója

Indicator of reciprocal relationships

Társas helyzetek arányítása

Ratio of social situations

magányos

Solitary

Párban 

In pairs/couples

láncban

In a chain

háromszögben

In a triangle

Csoportlégkör mutató

Group climate indicator

Rokonszenv eloszlási mutató

Sympathy distribution indicator

Funkcióválasztás eloszlási mutató

Choice by function distribution indicator

Tagolódási mutatók

Disaggregation indicators

Tagolódási sor

Disaggregation line

Pozitív elsőrendű jelentőség

Positive primary significance

Pozitív másodrendű jelentőség

Positive secondary significance

Nem jelentős

Not significant

Negatív másodrendű jelentőség

Negative secondary significance

Negatív elsőrendű jelentőség

Negative primary significance

jelentőségindex

Significance index

Kizárási mutató

Exclusion indicator

Pozitív jelentőségűek

Of positive significance

Negatív jelentőségűek

Of negative significance

Széli helyzet mutató

Marginal situation indicator

Elsődleges jelentőségűek

Of primary significance

Másodlagos jelentőségűek

Of secondary significance

szerepindex

Role index

Szűkített szerepindex

Narrowed role index

Globális szerepindex

Global role index

osztály

Grades/class

Általános iskola

Primary school

középiskola

Secondary school 

Egész minta

Total sample