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Places That Bond and Bind: On the Interplay of Space, Places, and Social Networks

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2022
Social networks of socially disadvantaged individuals can help them in coping with everyday life and avoiding social exclusion. At the same time, social ties also have the power to bind an individual to their disadvantageous situation, perpetuating the ...
Christoph van Dülmen, Andreas Klärner
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Ego Depletion and Positive Illusions: Does the Construction of Positivity Require Regulatory Resources? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Individuals frequently exhibit positive illusions about their own abilities, their possibilities to control their environment, and future expectations. The authors propose that positive illusions require resources of selfcontrol, which is considered to ...
Tobias Greitemeyer (550360)   +5 more
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Structural Properties of Ego Networks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The structure of real-world social networks in large part determines the evolution of social phenomena, including opinion formation, diffusion of information and influence, and the spread of disease. Globally, network structure is characterized by features such as degree distribution, degree assortativity, and clustering coefficient.
Sidharth Gupta   +2 more
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The Impact of Life Trajectories on Retirement: Socioeconomic Differences in Social Support Networks

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2021
In general, the literature about social support networks (SSNs) has been divided into two different statements: On the one hand, social support is a safety net that helps the ego confront disadvantages in life.
Francisca Ortiz, Elisa Bellotti
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El análisis de la Cohesión, Vinculación e Integración sociales en las encuestas EgoNet.

open access: yesREDES: Revista Hispana para el Análisis de Redes Sociales, 2011
The objective of these papers consists to showing some possibilities of analysis Ego-net about social Cohesion, Linking and Integration. A proposal is done in order to analyze these concepts.
Lozares, Carlos   +6 more
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Innovation diffusion: how homogenous networks influence the uptake of community-based injectable contraceptives

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2019
Background Studies have shown that social networks influence health behaviors, including the adoption of health innovations. This study explored the potential for early adopters of community health worker-delivered injectable contraceptives (CHWDIC) to ...
Oluwaseun Akinyemi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ego Citation Networks Considered as Domination Networks

open access: yesJournal of Scientometric Research, 2019
sponsorship: The authors thank anonymous reviewers for thoughtful observations. They further thank Leo Egghe (University Hasselt, Belgium) for helpful discussions. This work was supported by NSSFC via 71173154, National Social Sciences Foundation of China. Finally, we also thank Mats Benner, Joshua Eykens and Raf Guns for helpful information.
Liu, Yuxian, Rousseau, Ronald
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Curriculum making as relational practice: a qualitative ego-network approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Professional networks of teachers have been well documented in education studies but there is still a need for a fine‐grained analysis of teachers’ ego‐networks in the context of curriculum making. It is important to understand the nature and dynamics of
Hizli Alkan, Sinem, Sinem Hizli Alkan
core   +1 more source

Personality traits and ego-network dynamics

open access: yesPLOS ONE, 2017
Strong and supportive social relationships are fundamental to our well-being. However, there are costs to their maintenance, resulting in a trade-off between quality and quantity, a typical strategy being to put a lot of effort on a few high-intensity relationships while maintaining larger numbers of less close relationships.
Centellegher, Simone   +4 more
openaire   +10 more sources

Comparative analysis of layered structures in empirical investor networks and cellphone communication networks

open access: yesEPJ Data Science, 2020
Empirical investor networks (EIN) proposed by Ozsoylev et al. are assumed to capture the information spreading path among investors. Here, we perform a comparative analysis between the EIN and the cellphone communication networks (CN) to test whether EIN
Peng Wang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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