The quality of measurement of personal support subnetworks

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 517-532

  Kogovšek, Tina ^a   Ferligoj, Anuška ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Egocentered networks; Measurement; Reliability; Social support; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 24044476825     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-005-2178-y     Document Type: Article

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