Measuring social networks cross-culturally

Social Networks

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 363-376

  Adams, Alayne M ^a   Madhavan, Sangeetha ^b   Simon, Dominique ^c  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c Center for Addiction Recovery   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross cultural measurement; Data collection techniques; Reliability; Social support; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746255720     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2005.07.007     Document Type: Article

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