Publications

A full list of my publications is found in my CV. Many of my papers are also available via my Research Gate profile.

Journal Articles

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.

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, 51:837-865. (OSF Preprint)

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, 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: 493-50.

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. Changes in Turkishand 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 Lesczensky (2020). Choice Modelling in Social Networks using Stochastic Actor-oriented Models. Journal of Choice Modelling, Online First.

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.

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.

Jugert, Phillip, 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 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, 47: 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.

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

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.

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.

Other

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 D. Danner and A. Glöckner-Rist (eds.): Zusammenstellung sozialwissenschaftlicher Items und Skalen. Mannheim: GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften.

Leszczensky, Lars, Sebastian Pink and Frank Kalter (2014). Freundschaft und Identität in der Schule. Feldbericht zu Welle 1 und Welle 2 (Technical Report). MZES Working Paper Nr. 157, Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, Mannheim.

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.

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