Prof. Dr. Lars Leszczensky - Publications

Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals

Kretschmer, David, Kathrin Lämmermann, and Lars Leszczensky (2024). How Gendered Religious Norms Contribute to the Emerging Gender Gap in Muslim Youths Interreligious Friendships. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Accepted for Publication.

Kretschmer, David and Lars Leszczensky (2022). In-group Bias or Out-group Reluctance? The Interplay of Gender and Religion in Creating Religious Friendship Segregation among Muslim Youth. Social Forces. 100: 1307-1332.

Leszczensky, Lars and Tobias Wolbring (2022). How to Deal With Reverse Causality Using Panel Data? Recommendations for Researchers Based on a Simulation Study. Sociological Methods & Research, 22: 837-865.

Leszczensky, Lars, Sebastian Pink, David Kretschmer, and Frank Kalter (2022). Studying Youth' Group Identities, Intergroup Relations, and Friendship Networks: The Friendship and Identity in School Data. European Sociological Review, 38: 493-506

Leszczensky, Lars and David Kretschmer (2022). Religious Friendship Preferences of Muslim and Non-Muslim Students in German Schools: Bright Boundaries Everywhere or Contingent on the Proportion of Muslim Classmates? Social Networks, 68: 60-69.

Kaiser, Anna, David Kretschmer, and Lars Leszczensky (2021). Social Network-based Cohorting to Reduce the Spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Secondary Schools: A Simulation Study in Classrooms of Four European Countries. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 8.

Leszczensky, Lars and Sebastian Pink (2020). Are Birds of a Feather Praying Together? Assessing Friends Inﬂuence on Muslim Youth Religiosity in Germany. Social Psychology Quarterly, 83: 251-271.

Jugert, Philipp, Sebastian Pink, Fenella Fleischmann, and Lars Leszczensky (2020). Changes in Turkish- and Resettler-origin Adolescents' Acculturation Proﬁles of Identiﬁcation: A Three-year Longitudinal Study from Germany. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 49: 2476-2494.

Pink, Sebastian, David Kretschmer, and Lars Leszczensky (2020). Choice Modelling in Social Networks Using Stochastic Actor-Oriented Models. Journal of Choice Modelling, 34.

Leszczensky, Lars, Andreas Flache, and Lisa Sauter (2020). Does the Share of Religious Ingroup Members Aﬀect How Important Religion is to Adolescents? Applying Optimal Distinctiveness Theory to Four European Countries. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46: 3703-3721.

Jugert, Philipp, Lars Leszczensky, and Sebastian Pink (2020). Diﬀerential Inﬂuence of Same- and Cross-Ethnic Friends on Ethnic-Racial Identity Development in Early Adolescence. Child Development, 91: 949-963.

Leszczensky, Lars, Rahsaan Maxwell, and Erik Bleich (2020). What Factors Best Explain National Identiﬁcation among Muslim Adolescents? Evidence from Four European Countries. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46: 260-276.

Leszczensky, Lars and Sebastian Pink (2019). What Drives Ethnic Homophily? A Relational Approach on How Ethnic Identiﬁcation Moderates Preferences for Same-Ethnic Friends. American Sociological Review, 84: 394-419.

Leszczensky, Lars, Philipp Jugert, and Sebastian Pink (2019). The Interplay of Group Identiﬁcations and Friendships: Evidence from Longitudinal Social Network Studies. Journal of Social Issues, 75: 460-485.

Fleischmann, Fenella, Lars Leszczensky, and Sebastian Pink (2019). Identity Threat and Identity Multiplicity among Minority Youth: Longitudinal Relations of Perceived Discrimination with Ethnic, Religious and National Identiﬁcation in Germany. British Journal of Social Psychology, 58: 971-990.

Leszczensky, Lars (2018). (K)eine Frage der Religion? Die Entwicklung der sozialen Integration christlicher und muslimischer Neuzuwanderer. Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 42: 119-133.

Leszczensky, Lars (2018). Young Immigrants' Host Country Identiﬁcation and their Friendships with Natives: Does Relative Group Size Matter? Social Science Research, 70: 163-175.

Kretschmer, David, Lars Leszczensky, and Sebastian Pink (2018). Selection and Inﬂuence Processes in Academic Achievement - More Pronounced for Girls? Social Networks, 52: 251-260.

Jugert, Philipp, Lars Leszczensky, and Sebastian Pink (2018). The Eﬀects of Ethnic Minority Adolescents' Ethnic Self-Identiﬁcation on Friendship Selection. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 28: 379-395.

Leszczensky, Lars, Andreas Flache, Tobias Stark, and Anke Munniksma (2018). The Relation between Ethnic Classroom Composition and Adolescents' Ethnic Pride. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 21: 997-1013.

Leszczensky, Lars and Sebastian Pink (2017). Intra- and Inter-group Friendship Choices of Christian, Muslim, and Non-religious Youth in Germany. European Sociological Review, 33: 72-83.

Stark, Tobias, Lars Leszczensky, and Sebastian Pink (2017). Are there Diﬀerences in Ethnic Majority and Minority Adolescents' Friendship Preferences and Social Inﬂuence with Regard to their Academic Achievement? Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, 20: 475-498.

Leszczensky, Lars, Tobias Stark, Andreas Flache, and Anke Munniksma (2016). Disentangling the Relationship between Young Immigrants' Host Country Identiﬁcation and their Friendships with Natives. Social Networks, 44: 179-189.

Schulz, Benjamin and Lars Leszczensky (2016). Native Friends and National Identiﬁcation of Adolescent Immigrants in Germany: The Role of Ethnic Boundaries. International Migration Review, 50: 163-196.

Leszczensky, Lars and Sebastian Pink (2015). Ethnic Segregation of Friendship Networks in School: Testing a Rational Choice Argument of Diﬀerences in Ethnic Homophily between Classroom- and Grade-Level Networks. Social Networks, 42: 18-26.

Leszczensky, Lars and Aitana Gräbs Santiago (2015). The Development and Test of a Measure of Youth's Ethnic and National Identity. Methods, Data, Analyses, 9: 87-110.

Leszczensky, Lars (2013). Do National Identiﬁcation and Interethnic Friendships Aﬀect One Another? A Longitudinal Test with Adolescents of Turkish Origin in Germany. Social Science Research, 42: 775-788.

Dissertation Thesis

Leszczensky, Lars (2016). Tell Me Who Your Friends Are? Disentangling the Interplay of Young Immigrants' Host Country Identiﬁcation and Their Friendships with Natives. University of Mannheim.

* European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR) Prize for Best PhD Thesis 2017.

* Lorenz-von-Stein Prize for best dissertation in the School of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim.

Other Publications

Ellwardt, Lea, Lars Leszczensky, and Sebastian Pink (2023). Software für die quantitative Analyse sozialer Netzwerke. In Christian Stegbauer and Roger Häußling (Eds.), Handbuch Netzwerkforschung. Springer VS.

Jugert, Philipp and Lars Leszczensky (2023). Friendships. In Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology. Elsevier.

Leszczensky, Lars and Tobias Stark (2019). Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Segregation in Youths Friendship Networks: Opportunities and Challenges for Research. In Titzmann, Peter F. and Philipp Jugert (Eds.), Youth in Superdiverse Societies: Growing up with Globalization, Diversity, and Acculturation (pp. 233-248). London: Routledge.

Carol, Sarah and Lars Leszczensky (2019). Soziale Integration: Interethnische Freund- und Partnerschaften und ihre Determinanten. In Pickel, Gert, Oliver Decker, Steﬀen Kailitz, Antje Röder, Julia Schulze Wessel (Eds.), Handbuch Integration. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Leszczensky, Lars, Harald Beier, Hanno Kruse, and Sebastian Pink (2016). Collecting Network Panel Data in Schools: Practical Guidance Based on the Experiences of Three German Research Projects. MZES Working Paper Nr. 166, Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, Mannheim.

Leszczensky, Lars, Sebastian Pink, and Frank Kalter (2015). Friendship and Identity in School. Field Report on Wave 1, Wave 2, and Wave 3 (Technical Report). MZES Working Paper Nr. 161, Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, Mannheim.

Leszczensky, Lars and Aitana Gräbs Santiago (2014). Ethnische und nationale Identität von Kindern und Jugendlichen. In Zusammenstellung sozialwissenschaftlicher Items und Skalen. Mannheim: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften.

Leszczensky, Lars, and Aitana Gräbs Santiago (2014). Die Messung ethnischer und nationaler Identität von Kindern und Jugendlichen. MZES Working Paper Nr. 155, Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, Mannheim.

News

Contact