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Below are published articles and articles, plus conferences presentations, resulting from the UCNets project. As the project develops, we will continue to post working papers that result from this study, reports for media and other interested parties, scholarly publications, and conference presentations.

  • Peer-Reviewed Publications

  1. Soria, Christopher and Leora Lawton. 2022.  Connecting Fathers: Fathers’ Impact on Adult Children’s Social Networks.  International Journal of Human Development. Forthcoming.  NIHMSID 1810822.

  2. Weiss, Jordan, Lawton, Leora and Claude S. Fischer. 2022.  Life course transitions and changes in network ties among younger and older adults. Advances in Life Course Research, 52. June.

  3. Shira Offer, Claude S.Fischer. 2022. How new is “New”? Who gets added in a panel study of personal networks? Social Networks, 70: 284-294. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2022.02.011. PMCID: PMC9116615.

  4. Ruppel EH, Child S, Fischer CS, Botchway M. 2022. Causal Relationships between Personal Networks and Health: A Comparison of Three Modeling Strategies. Journal of Health and Social Behavior.  doi:10.1177/00221465211072310.

  5. Lee, Keunbok. 2021. Different discussion partners and their effect on depression among older adults. Social Sciences. 10, (6), 215. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/10/6/215

  6. Fischer, C., & Durham, X. 2021. Forms of Group Involvement: Alternatives to the Standard Question. Sociological Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1177/07311214211046561.

  7. Child ST, Ruppel EH, Albert MA, Lawton L. 2021. Network Support and Negative Life Events Associated With Chronic Cardiometabolic Disease Outcomes. American Journal of Preventative Medicine. 62(1):e21-e28. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2021.06.022.

  8. Child, Stephanie, Ruppel, Emily H., Zhong, Mia, Lawton, Leora. 2021. Direct and moderating causal effects of network support on sleep quality: Findings from the UC Berkeley Social Network Study. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 55, (5), 446-459. PMCID: PMC8122471

  9. Child, S. and Lawton, L. 2020.  Personal networks and associations with psychological distress among young and older adults.  Social Science and Medicine. 

  10. Offer, S. 2020. They Drive Me Crazy: Difficult Social Ties and Subjective Well-Being. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 61(4), 418–436. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022146520952767.
    v246. DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112714PMC7025742.

  11. Demir-Dagdas, T. & Child, S. 2019. Religious Affiliation, Informal Participation, and Network Support Associated with Substance Use: Differences Across Age Groups. Health Education & Behavior. 2019 Aug;46(4):656-665. PMC6625869

  12. C. S. Fischer and S. Offer. 2019. “Who is Dropped and Why? Methodological and Substantive Accounts for Network Loss.” Social Networks. Online publication: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2019.08.008 .

  13. Fischer, Claude S. and Lindsay Bayham. 2019. “Mode and Interviewer Effects in Egocentric Network Research.” Field Methods 31(3): 195-213. https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X19861321. PMC6748643

  14. Offer, S. and Fischer, CS . 2018. Difficult People: Who is Perceived to be Demanding in Personal Networks and Why Are They There? American Sociological Review, 83(1): 111-142 https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122417737951. PMC5937537

  15. Child, S. and Lawton, L. 2017. Loneliness and social isolation among young and late middle-age adults: Associations of personal networks and social participation. Aging and Mental Health. DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2017.1399345. PMC5967985

Note: see also the publications associated with these data at ICPSR: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/ICPSR/studies/36975/publications. 

  • Books and Book Chapters
  1. Fischer, Claude S. 2021. “From the Northern California Community Study, 1977-78, to UCNets, 2015-20.” Pp. 227-239 in Personal Networks: Classic Readings and New Directions in Ego-Centric Analysis, eds. M.L. Small et al. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  2. Offer, S. and Fischer, CS “Calling on Kin: The Place of Parents and Adult Children in Egocentric Networks.” In D. Alwin, D. H. Felmlee, and D. A. Kreager (eds.), Social Networks and the Life Course. Springer, in press.
  • Conference Presentations
  1. Lawton, Leora.  “Social Networks, Social Isolation and Loneliness: a look at COVID ‘pods.” Invited paper to the Public Policy Exchange, Feb 10, 2021.
  2. Child, Stephanie and Emily Ruppel. “Effects of Social Support on Self-Rated Health: Causal Findings from the UC Berkeley Social Networks Panel Study.” Presented at the 2019 annual meeting of the American Public Health Association
  3. Fischer, C.S. and Offer, S. “Who is Dropped and Why? Methodological and Substantive Accounts for Network Loss,” Paper to be delivered to the Sunbelt Networks Conference, Montreal, June 2019.
  4. Offer, S. and Fischer, C., “They Drive me Crazy: Difficult Social Ties and Subjective Well-Being,” Presented at the American Sociological Association Meetings, Aug., 2019.
  5. Fischer, Claude. “Dynamics of ego-networks and life events conference” Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Research, Marseilles, France, May, 2019.
  6. Zhong, Mia and Fischer, Claude S. Being single with many friends: Trade-off between close non-kin and spousal ties in social support. Presented at Sunbelt 2019, XXXIX Conference – International Networks of Social Network Analysis, Montreal.
  7. Offer, S. and Fischer, C.S. Difficult People: Who Is Demanding in Personal Networks and Why Are They There? Presentation at the Workshop on Personal Networks, Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès May 18, 2018
  8. Lee, Keunbok. 2018. “A Tie-Centered Approach for the Study of Personal Networks. Presented at the Sunbelt Social Networks Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis 2018, Utrecht, Netherlands. 
  9. Lee, Keunbok. Nov. 2018 “Typology of Kinship: Multi-level Latent class Analysis for personal network” Presented at the 2nd North American Social Networks Conference. Washington D.C., U.S.A. 
  10. Lee, Keunbok. May. 2018 “Typology of Friends” Presentation at the Workshop on Personal Networks, Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès May 18, 2018
  11. Lawton, Leora and Wilson, Willis. 2018. To Facebook or not to Facebook: Comparing Facebook with Address-based sampling recruits to a panel study. American Association of Public Opinion Research, Denver, CO.
  12. Child, Stephanie. “Differences in Ego-Network Characteristics Following Recent Health Shocks.” Presented at the American Public Health Association 145th Annual Conference, November 4-8, 2017, Atlanta, GA.
  13. Keun Bok Lee. “Multiplexity of personal networks and well-being.” Presented at the Sunbelt conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis in Beijing, May 30-June 4, 2017.
  14. Keun Bok Lee. “Who gets advice on weight loss from physicians? Network effects on receiving advice on weight loss.” Presented at the Sunbelt conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis in Beijing, May 30-June 4, 2017.
  15. Fischer, Claude, Stephanie Child and Keun Bok Lee. “How People Stay in Touch: Correlates of Communication Modes,” Presented to Ego Networks in the Era of Network Science Conference, Radcliffe Institute, November, 2016.
  16. Fischer, Claude and Stephanie Child “Personality and Contexts in Tie Formation,” Presented to the Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Seattle, August 20, 2016.
  17. Lawton, Leora, Lindsay Bayham, Haleigh Cummings and Ashley Sandoval. “Lessons from Audiofiles: Verification and Mixed Methods Analysis.” Annual Meeting of the Pacific Association of Public Opinion Research, San Francisco, CA, 2016.

Papers presented by researchers at institutions other than UC Berkeley:

  1. Pachucki, Mark, and Anthony Paik. “Diversity and Disconnectedness in Personal Networks: The Promise and Peril of Embracing Difference in a Politically Polarized Age.” Presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the INSNA (Sunbelt), Montreal, Canada, and at the American Sociological Association, New York, NY, August 2019.
  2. Paik, Anthony, Mark Pachucki, and Hsin Fei Tu. “Defriending: Personal Networks in a Politically Polarized Age. Presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the INSNA (Sunbelt), Montreal, Canada.
  3. Raffaele Vacca and Basak Bilicen, “The isolation paradox: A comparative study of social support among migrants and natives”. Presented at the American Sociological Association, New York, NY, August 2019.
  4. McKay, Tara. “Social Networks and Health among Older LGBT Adults in the San Francisco Bay Area.” Presented at the Population Association of America, Chicago, IL, 2017.
Last updated: May 25, 2022 (publications only)