McCabe found that 'tight-knitters' retained 30 percent of their friendship network after five years, compared to 23 percent for both 'compartmentalizers' and 'samplers'.
Sources
- How your college friendships help you (theconversation.com)
- https://www.alternet.org/2016/12/value-college-friendships (alternet.org)
- https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2016/12/how-your-college-friendships-help-you-or-dont (home.dartmouth.edu)
- https://dokumen.pub/connecting-in-college-how-friendship-networks-matter-for-academic-and-social-success-9780226409665.html (dokumen.pub)
- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1536504216662237 (journals.sagepub.com)
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