Eliciting social network data and ecological model-building: Focus on choice of name generators and administration of random-walk study procedures.

Autor:	Liebow, Edward, McGrady, Gene, Branch, Kristi, Vera, Mildred, Klovdahl, Alden, Lovely, Richard, Mueller, Charles, Mann, Eberhard
Předmět:	TEENAGERS & social media, RISK-taking behavior in adolescence, HIV infections, SOCIAL networks, INTERPERSONAL relations
Zdroj:	Social Networks. Jul-Oct1995, Vol. 17 Issue 3/4, p257-272. 16p. 5 Charts.
Abstrakt:	Relational and attribute data were collected through a link-tracing (random walk) network sample that began with young teenagers living in settings that may place them at higher risk for HIV infection. A series of 43 and 52 three-step, four-node walks were completed in Atlanta, Georgia, and San Juan, Puerto Rico, respectively. Analysis of data concerning social networks and risk-related behaviors/attributes is intended to specify certain aspects of a socio-ecological model of health interventions by using social network structural properties as indicators of 'interpersonal' and 'institutional'-level variables. Here we report on how several network data elicitation issues were addressed in developing and implementing the survey instrument: elicitation of information concerning adolescents' relationships, attributes and behaviors of named associates, and general administration of study procedures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze:	Regional Business News
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