How many are good enough for the adolescent social network nomination

Authors:
Hsieh-Hua Yang;Chyi-In Wu;Man Kit Lei;Hung-Jen Yang
Affiliations:
Department of Health Care Administration, Oriental Institute of Technology, Banciao City, Taipei County, Taiwan;Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica;Department of Sociology, University of Georgia;Department of Industrial Technology Education, National Kaohsiung Normal University
Venue:
WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics
Year:
2009

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Abstract

For social network analysis, the most common method used to generate social network data is the method of Name Generator. Nonetheless, the number of nomination has been an unsolved mystery for social networkers. Namely, for each respondents, to name how many people are good enough to generate a stable network, which is able to represent the truly association structure among these respondents, still, is an empirical research question for researchers. This study devoted to explore this question and to provide a preliminary answer. A set of social network data was collected from a sample of Taipei metropolitan junior high schools, including 44 classes. In each class the students were asked to nominate ten best friends in the intimate order. It was supposed that in each class has ten sociometric data for different nomination, and the total amount of sociometric data was 440. The software UCINET6.0 was applied to analyze the social network variables, and NEGOPY4.30 to define the network position. Comparing the betweenness, constraint, and efficiency, this study found that two names will generate more diverse network position with unstable structure, three names are the minimum to get more stable network structure, four or five names are needed to observe the links between boys and girls, but more than five names seem to be redundancy.