Dynamics of adolescent friendships: The interplay between structure and gender

Proceedings - 2011 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 313-320

  Ko, Pei Chun ^a   Buskens, Vincent ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Dynamics of friendship; Gender; Social networks

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; GENDER; INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS; MULTI-LAYERED; NETWORK CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 80052773828     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASONAM.2011.30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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