The Comparability of Event-Related and General Social Support

• Autores: Valentina Hlebec, Maja Mrzel, Tina Kogovsek
• Localización: Social network mining, analysis, and research trends: techniques and applications / I-Hsien Ting (ed. lit.), Tzung-Pei Hong (ed. lit.), Leon S.L. Wang (ed. lit.), 2012, ISBN 978-1-61350-513-7, págs. 339-359
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Some studies (e.g., Kogovsek & Hlebec, 2008, 2009) have shown that the name generator and the role relation approaches to measuring social networks are to some extent comparable, but less so the name generator and the event-related approaches (Hlebec, Mrzel. & Kogovsek, 2009). In this chapter. the composition of the social support network assessed by both the general social support approach and the event-related approach (support during 15 major life events) is analyzed and compared. In both cases, the role relation approach is used. In addition, in both approaches a more elaborate (16 possible categories ranging from partner, mother, father, friend to no one) and a more simple (6 possible categories ranging from family member, friend, neighbor to no one) response format is applied and compared. The aim of the chapter is to establish, in a controlled quasi-experiment setting, whether the different approaches (i.e. the general social support and the event-related approach) produce similar social networks regardless of the response format (long vs. short).