Exploring variation in active network size: Constraints and ego characteristics |
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| Authors: | Sam G.B. Roberts Robin I.M. Dunbar Thomas V. Pollet Toon Kuppens |
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| Affiliation: | 1. British Academy Centenary Project, Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, 64 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6PN, UK;2. Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands;3. Division of Social and Organizational Psychology, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium |
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| Abstract: | Studies of active personal networks have primarily focused on providing reliable estimates of the size of the network. In this study, we examine how compositional properties of the network and ego characteristics are related to variation in network size. There was a negative relationship between mean emotional closeness and network size, for both related and unrelated networks. Further, there was a distinct upper bound on total network size. These results suggest that there are constraints both on the absolute number of individuals that ego can maintain in the network, and also on the emotional intensity of the relationships that ego can maintain with those individuals. |
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| Keywords: | Social networks Personal networks Individual difference Constraints Emotional closeness |
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