Families and Personal Networks An International Comparative Perspective
67 factors. The unit of analysis will be the network and, with the exception of network size, we will use the same measure to as ...
68 five alters (15.3% compared to 12.9%), six alters (9.2% compared to 7.4%), eight alters (3.0% compared to 1.7% in the total s ...
69 Kin and Non-kin Salience As mentioned in the chapter introduction, the salience of kin and non- kin ties in personal networks ...
70 ence of kin, are also permeable to non-kin at an average level. The over- arching importance of kin is thus transversal to th ...
71 Turning to the family of orientation (parents and siblings), some inter- esting findings come into view. The category of moth ...
72 tion of the Swiss towards the ascendants compared to the other two countries points to a higher functional autonomy of childr ...
73 The frequency of in-laws also varies significantly according to country. Overall, in-laws are more frequently cited in Portug ...
74 salient, alongside ex-partners and co-workers. Another distinctive charac- teristic is the lower share of grandchildren in th ...
75 Switzerland (M = 0.65). In sum, the fact of having shared the same house- hold in the present or in the past plays a signific ...
76 a high proportion of the composition of personal networks (35%); whereas in Switzerland almost 50% of the network is composed ...
77 examine not only the proportion of male and female alters across coun- tries, but also gender differences within countries. T ...
78 means that Swiss men have more cross-gender relationships, and Swiss women have more same-gender relationships. The dominance ...
79 centredness and openness to alternative family forms – as normative factors. The procedure carried out to compute these two i ...
80 order to identify the items that represented the same dimension and thus could be aggregated into composite indexes (Table 3. ...
81 normative differentiation in the three national contexts, which will certainly account for the variations in the composition ...
82 In order to examine the role of the shaping factors on the composition of personal networks, we ran six linear regression mod ...
83 Table 3.6 Influence of shaping factors on network size and proportion of kin. Regression models, unstandardized Beta coeffici ...
84 education (in particular associated with a university-level education) in combination with an accumulation of cultural capita ...
85 Table 3.7 Influence of shaping factors on the proportion of co-resident alters and female alters. Regression models, unstanda ...
86 mative context has a significant effect. By contrast, all the structural fac- tors are significant predictors of the proporti ...
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