Effects on reliability and validity of egocentered network measurements

Social Networks

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 205-229

  Kogovšek, Tina ^a   Ferligoj, Anuška ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Egocentered networks; Measurement; Reliability; Social support; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 20444441513     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2005.01.001     Document Type: Article

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