Residential mobility and the spatial dispersion of personal networks: Effects on social support

Social Networks

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 59-72

  Viry, Gil ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Geographical distance; Network spatial dispersion; Personal network analysis; Residential mobility; Social support; Spatial mobility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855187359     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2011.07.003     Document Type: Article

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