The Position Generator: Measurement Techniques for Investigations of Social Capital

Does who you know in the positional hierarchy protect or hurt? Social capital, comparative reference group, and depression in two societies

“…This study constructed three traditionally used indicators of absolute accessed occupational status (see Table 3): upper, average, and lower reachability, which were respectively the highest, average, and lowest ISEI score of accessed occupations (Campbell et al, 1986;Lin and Dumin, 1986;Lin et al, 2001). It also calculated two indicators of relative accessed SES: the number of accessed occupations with ISEI scores higher and lower than that of ego's previous job (or last/current job for egos without previous job) (Hodge and Treiman, 1968;Jackman and Jackman, 1973).…”

“…The survey used the position generator to measure accessed SES prior to ego's current job (or last job for the unemployed) (Lin et al, 2001), which asked ego to identify contacts in a representative sample of occupations. Each respondent was asked, "At the time [you started your current or last job], namely in year____, did you know someone who had the following kinds of jobs?"…”

“…The unique data have information on one mental health outcome, depressive symptoms, and allow objective measurements of both absolute and relative accessed SES through a network instrument, the position generator (Lin et al, 2001). Also, the data provide an opportunity to tentatively examine two cultural explanationsdrelational dependence and self-evaluation motivedon the varying strength of the two aforementioned theories across the two societies (Chung and Mallery, 1999;Lin, 2001b;Markus and Kitayama, 1991;Sasaki et al, 2014;Song, 2013bSong, , 2014aSong, , 2014bSong, , 2015White and Lehman, 2005;Yang, 1994).…”

Structural Social Capital, Household Income and Life Satisfaction: The Evidence from Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong-Province, China

“…The CNYVN is formed by mutual visits during the Spring Festival, with the individual respondent as the center (Lin 2008). The indicator of CNYVN, therefore, is a better means of measuring the characteristics of social networks than ''friendship networks'' and ''discussion networks'' at the family level (Bian et al 2005).…”

Five capital impact assessment: Appraisal framework based on theory of sustainable well-being

“…Several review articles have been published concerning the usefulness of social capital [106][107][108][109][110][111][112][113][114][115][116]. The connotation of social capital is used in social sciences [117], developmental economics [84,114,118], business, and in macro-economic terms [119,120].…”