Research Library P-T

Research Library: P-T

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Egocentric Network Analysis: Foundations, Methods, and Models (2018)

Perry, Brea L.; Pescosolido, Bernice A.; Borgatti, Stephen P.. Cambridge University Press. DOI 10.1017/9781316443255

The definitive comprehensive guide to ego network study design, data collection, and analysis. It covers everything from conceptualising research questions and sampling strategies to name generators, alter elicitation, visualisation, multilevel regression, and longitudinal modelling. [draft]

Population: Not applicable. This is a methods textbook, not an empirical study with a research sample..

Keywords: egocentric-networks, personal-networks, social-network-analysis, tie-strength, network-structure.

Evidence: reference, methods, textbook. Risk of bias: not-applicable.

Ambivalent versus Problematic Social Ties: Implications for Psychological Health, Functional Health, and Interpersonal Coping (2012)

Rook, Karen S.; Luong, Gloria; Sorkin, Dara H.; Newsom, Jason T.; Krause, Neal. Psychology and Aging, 27(4). DOI 10.1037/a0029246

This study gives the project a precise mechanism-level distinction between two categories of harmful network tie: ambivalent ties (mixed positive and negative) and exclusively problematic ties (negative only). Using a large, nationally representative sample of older adults, it shows that these two tie types have divergent health footprints and elicit qualitatively different coping responses. [draft]

Population: n=916; Non-institutionalised, English-speaking, cognitively functional adults aged 65 to 90 drawn from the Later Life Study of Social Exchanges.

Keywords: social-networks, tie-quality, ambivalent-ties, problematic-ties, coping.

Evidence: moderate, empirical, cross-sectional. Risk of bias: medium.