How many are good enough for the adolescent social network nomination

WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 299-308

  Yang, Hsieh Hua ^a   Wu, Chyi In ^b   Lei, Man Kit ^c   Yang, Hung Jen ^d  

^a ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOCIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Evaluation; Junior high school; Nomination number; Social network

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION STRUCTURES; BETWEENNESS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; STABLE NETWORK; UNSTABLE STRUCTURES;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 70450198801     PISSN: 11092769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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