Study Antonucci et al. (1998): study US 1980
- Public
- 50-95 aged, married, with children, USA,1980
- Survey name
- Social Networks in Adult Life
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 366
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Network too demanding
- Our Classification
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- Operationalization
- Respondents were asked:
about how often do you feel that people in your network make to many demonds on you?
0: never
1: seldom
2: sometimes
3: often.
Observed Relation with Happiness
Beta's controled for:
- personal characteristics:
- age
- education
- health compared to others
- network sturcture:
- size of inner cicrle
- size of middle circle
- size of outer circle
- negative social support:
- network doesn't understand
- network gets on nerve
- want more dependable network.