Families and Personal Networks An International Comparative Perspective

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Table 5.1


Types of personal configuration. Average number of citations for each tie, by type


Standard-nuclear

Narrow-nuclear

Parent

Beanpole

Extended conjugal

Sibling-oriented

Mixed

Friend-ship

Work-oriented

Mean

F-test

Size

3.2

2.5

3.9

5.7

5.2

4.0

4.9

4.0

4.5

4.2

87.83***

n

306

574

405

197

313

265

147

315

252

2774

%

11.0

20.7

14.6

7.1

11.3

9.6

5.3

11.4

9.1

100

Partner

0.80

0.86

0.76

0.75

0.77

0.58

0.54

0.67

0.56

0.70

20.25***

Father

0.00

0.01

0.71

0.08

0.28

0.11

0.31

0.04

0.20

0.19

185.67***

Mother

0.06

0.08

0.94

0.21

0.43

0.35

0.41

0.14

0.31

0.33

204.96***

Son

0.18

1.09

0.39

1.14

0.50

0.36

0.46

0.40

0.36

0.29

79.68***

Daughter

1.79

0.36

0.51

0.90

0.49

0.27

0.48

0.34

0.35

0.41

170.52***

Brother

0.06

0.02

0.14

0.06

0.27

0.82

0.18

0.05

0.17

0.20

94.32***

Sister

0.09

0.04

0.16

0.11

0.33

1.11

0.28

0.08

0.15

0.14

145.71***

Parents-in-law

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.58

0.02

0.04

0.00

0.03

0.07

144.89***

Grandchildren

0.14

0.01

0.00

1.27

0.03

0.01

0.03

0.02

0.04

0.03

229.39***

Children-in-law

0.02

0.00

0.00

0.90

0.03

0.00

0.00

0.03

0.01

0.11

307.56***

Siblings-in-law

0.02

0.00

0.00

0.02

0.48

0.01

0.06

0.00

0.04

0.07

114.21***

Collaterals

0.01

0.01

0.00

0.03

0.64

0.03

0.22

0.02

0.10

0.12

76.21***

Male friends

0.02

0.00

0.10

0.08

0.13

0.08

0.20

1.10

0.23

0.09

143.8***

Female friends

0.04

0.00

0.21

0.06

0.24

0.18

0.33

1.16

0.33

0.15

108.41***

Colleague

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.01

0.00

0.00

0.01

0.00

0.86

0.10

333.75***

Non-kin members

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.02

0.03

0.01

0.08

0.00

0.63

0.09

114.42***

Others

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.03

0.02

0.02

1.27

0.00

0.05

0.01

1063.35***

Note: *

p < 0.05; **

p < 0.01; ***

p < 0.001
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