Exploring variation in active network size: constraints and ego characteristics
Studies of active personal networks have primarily focused on providing reliable estimates of the size of the network. In this study, we examine how compositional properties of the network and ego characteristics are related to variation in network size. There was a negative relationship between mea...
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| description | Studies of active personal networks have primarily focused on providing reliable estimates of the size of the network. In this study, we examine how compositional properties of the network and ego characteristics are related to variation in network size. There was a negative relationship between mean emotional closeness and network size, for both related and unrelated networks. Further, there was a distinct upper bound on total network size. These results suggest that there are constraints both on the absolute number of individuals that ego can maintain in the network, and also on the emotional intensity of the relationships that ego can maintain with those individuals. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:71b28045-6018-4abb-8fe2-dd1eea798a712022-03-26T19:45:17ZExploring variation in active network size: constraints and ego characteristicsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:71b28045-6018-4abb-8fe2-dd1eea798a71AnthropologyPsychologyEnglishOxford University Research Archive - ValetElsevier2009Roberts, SDunbar, RPollet, TKuppens, TStudies of active personal networks have primarily focused on providing reliable estimates of the size of the network. In this study, we examine how compositional properties of the network and ego characteristics are related to variation in network size. There was a negative relationship between mean emotional closeness and network size, for both related and unrelated networks. Further, there was a distinct upper bound on total network size. These results suggest that there are constraints both on the absolute number of individuals that ego can maintain in the network, and also on the emotional intensity of the relationships that ego can maintain with those individuals. |
| spellingShingle | Anthropology Psychology Roberts, S Dunbar, R Pollet, T Kuppens, T Exploring variation in active network size: constraints and ego characteristics |
| title | Exploring variation in active network size: constraints and ego characteristics |
| title_full | Exploring variation in active network size: constraints and ego characteristics |
| title_fullStr | Exploring variation in active network size: constraints and ego characteristics |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring variation in active network size: constraints and ego characteristics |
| title_short | Exploring variation in active network size: constraints and ego characteristics |
| title_sort | exploring variation in active network size constraints and ego characteristics |
| topic | Anthropology Psychology |
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