Surveys and questionnaires are widely used to assemble data on connections among
persons or other social actors. Such methods have a long heritage: researchers used them …

Egocentric network analysis is used widely across the social sciences, especially in
anthropology, political science, economics, and sociology, and is increasingly being …

Relationships and the pattern of relationships have a large and varied influence on both
individual and group action. The fundamental distinction of social network analysis research …

We provide reporting guidelines for multilevel factor analysis (MFA) and use these
guidelines to systematically review 72 MFA applications in journals across a range of …

When people are facing difficulties, they often feel the need for a confidant-a person to vent
to or a sympathetic ear with whom to talk things through. How do they decide on whom to …

Although it is now well established that networks contribute to entrepreneurship by
extending the individual entrepreneurial asset base of human, social, market, financial and …

Social Network Analysis: Methods and Examples by Song Yang, Franziska B. Keller, and Lu
Zheng prepares social science students to conduct their own social network analysis (SNA) …

Researchers have paid increasing attention to the core discussion network, the set of friends
and family people turn to when discussing important matters. For nearly thirty years, social …

This article reviews recent methodological research that bears on the collection of
egocentric network data. It begins with background on setting egocentric network …

Extreme response style (ERS) and acquiescence response style (ARS) are among the most
encountered problems in attitudinal research. The authors investigate whether the response …