Nan Lin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3620554 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nan Lin |
| FAMILY NAME | Lin |
| SIGNATURE | LIN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8680-2455 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 85 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1759 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 82 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 18 |
Self-disclosure in instant messaging
The Protective Role of Perceived Social Support
INTRODUCTION: Aggression during the transition from primary to secondary school represents a critical developmental concern, yet little is known about its dynamic association with perceived social support during this vulnerable period. This study aimed to examine the short-term trajectories of aggression and perceived social support and to test their dynamic interrelations across the critical first semester. METHOD: = 0.53), who completed monthly…
Land Resources and Climate Resilience
In the era of COP28, most of the attention has been given to the effect of green finance on environmental sustainability. There is still a lack of evidence concerning the influencing factors of green finance while considering food production, water productivity, and agricultural production as a result of the increasing global population. This research investigated the influence of the abovementioned variables, along with the environmental tax and…
The influence mechanism of the willingness to use autonomous taxis
Psychosocial symptom networks and high-risk sexual behaviors among men who have sex with men
Psychosocial problems are prevalent among men who have sex with men (MSM) and are linked to high-risk sexual behaviors. Previous studies have often examined these factors separately, without considering their interconnections. Network analysis offers a way to explore these relationships, but has seldom been applied to MSM in the context of both mental health and sexual risk. This study aimed to: (1) model psychosocial symptom networks among MSM; …
Associations of antenatal micronutrient supplementation with adolescent blood pressure
ISRCTN08850194, retrospectively registered December 14, 2006. https://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN08850194?q=ISRCTN08850194&filters=&sort=&offset=1&totalResults=1&page=1&pageSize=10
Barriers to physical activity among adolescents with asthma and obesity
Barriers operate at intrapersonal, interpersonal, institutional, and community or technology levels. Co-designed and individualized activity plans and coordinated communication among families, schools, and healthcare may enhance participation. Existing digital tools require health-sensitive personalization and safety features to support adolescents with asthma and obesity
Multi-omics perspective on Huoluo Xiaoling Pellet
Our results demonstrated that HXP was an effective drug to improve the development of KOA. Among them, Salvianolic acid B, the most abundant compound in HXP and the best computer simulation result, may be the key monomer compound of HXP for KOA treatment. The results of the visualisation analysis further contributed to our understanding of HXP treatment of KOA in terms of changes in SHIP1, PTPRC proteins and cytochrome P450 enzyme family. This is…
The Everyday Representation of Women Through China’s Women’s Congresses
From Edo Period to Present
Over the course of centuries, Japanese poster design has evolved to reflect the country's cultural, social, and technological advancements. However, a comprehensive study that traces the evolution of Japanese poster design from the Edo Period to the present, from an interdisciplinary perspective, is required. The purpose of this study was to look into the technological, sociopolitical, cultural, historical, and artistic aspects of Japanese poster…
Exploring the life experiences of school‐aged children afflicted by tethered spinal cord syndrome
BACKGROUND: Children affected by tethered cord syndrome (TCS) encounter multifaceted challenges encompassing educational, familial and social spheres, underscoring the significance of a holistic comprehension of their subjective emotional well-being and life encounters. Nonetheless, healthcare professionals tend to prioritise the physical functionality of the afflicted individuals throughout the treatment and rehabilitation process, often neglect…
Testing a bifactor model and measurement invariance of the cognitive avoidance questionnaire in Chinese adolescents
Individual differences in first-pass fixation duration in reading are related to resting-state functional connectivity
Mining Daily Activity Chains from Large-Scale Mobile Phone Location Data
Understanding residents' daily activity chains provides critical support for various applications in transportation, public health and many other related fields. Recently, mobile phone location datasets have been suggested for mining activity patterns because of their utility and large sample sizes. Although recently machine learning-based models seem to perform well in activity purpose inference using mobile phone location data, most of these mo…
Social Resources and Strength of Ties
For a class of social actions such as seeking a job, the socioeconomic standings of the contact (social resources) an individual uses will probably be very important in achieving a desired result. Drawing upon data from a sample of working males aged 21-64 in the metropolitan area of Albany-Troy-Schenactady, New York, we found that the job seeker's personal resources (initially his family background, but more importantly later his educational and…
Social Capital, Social Support and Stratification
Social Networks and Status Attainment
Status attainment can be understood as a process by which individuals mobilize and invest resources for returns in socioeconomic standings. These resources can be classified into two types: personal resources and social resources. In the last three decades, a research tradition has focused on the effects on attained statuses of social resources. The principal proposition is that social resources exert an important and significant effect on attain…
Building a Network Theory of Social Capital
This chapter reviews social capital as discussed in the literature, identifies controversies and debates, considers some critical issues, and provides conceptual and research strategies for building a theory. It argues that such a theory and the research enterprise must be based on the fundamental understanding that social capital is captured from embedded resources in social networks. Such measurements can strength of tie network bridge, or inti…
Social Capital
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Part I. Social Capital: Networks and Embedded Resources -- 1 Building a Network Theory of Social Capital Nan Lin -- WHAT IS CAPITAL? -- WHY DOES SOCIAL CAPITAL WORK? -- PERSPECTIVES AND CONTROVERSIES IN SOCIAL CAPITAL -- CONCEPTUALIZING AND MEASURING SOCIAL CAPITAL -- Embedded Resources and Network Locations -- Measuring Social Capital as Assets in Networks -- Sampling …
Weak ties, strong ties, and job mobility in urban China
Toward a Relational Account of Neighborhood Governance
Although changes in urban space often mean a restructuring of social relations, few studies elucidate why network-related frameworks are inherently related to residential outcomes in urban neighborhoods. By proposing a relational account of neighborhood governance, we investigate outcomes of neighborhood governance by incorporating a series of measures of network forms of organization, network-based social capital, and neighborly interactions. Ba…
The Weaknesses of Civic Territorial Organizations
China's massive transformation in urban governance, which is characterized by breaking the link between workplace and residence and consolidating state territorial agencies at the grassroots level, has profound implications for urban residents. While community building is employed as a deliberate (top-down) approach to restore a governable urban society, the establishment, development and problems of bottom-up civic territorial organizations - ho…
Social Capital and Its Institutional Contingency
Local State Marketism
Drawing on an institutional analysis of China's urban housing and land market, this research demonstrates how the triangular relations among the central government, local governments, and the market evolved in response to new opportunities continuously created by market transformation and policies strictly enforced by the central government. In particular, the authors argue that the territory-based coalition between local governments and selectiv…
Network diversity, contact diversity, and status attainment
Social Resources and Strength of Ties
Nan Lin, Walter M. Ensel, John C. Vaughn, Social Resources and Strength of Ties: Structural Factors in Occupational Status Attainment, American Sociological Review, Vol. 46, No. 4 (Aug., 1981), pp. 393-405
Social Capital
In Social Capital, Nan Lin explains the importance of using social connections and social relations in achieving goals. Social capital, or resources accessed through such connections and relations, is critical (along with human capital, or what a person or organization actually possesses) to individuals, social groups, organizations, and communities in obtaining their objectives. This book places social capital in the family of capital theories (…
Inequality in Social Capital
Life Stress and Health
In the life stress process social, psychological, and physiological environments simultaneously impinge on well-being. In this paper we focus on physical health as it is affected by two environmental elements: stress(or)es and resources. Data from a three-wave panel survey of a representative upstate New York community are examined by lagged causal relationships among these variables. The results show that (1) prior physiological conditions contr…
Social Support, Stressful Life Events, and Illness
Nan Lin, Walter M. Ensel, Ronald S. Simeone, Wen Kuo, Social Support, Stressful Life Events, and Illness: A Model and an Empirical Test, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Jun., 1979), pp. 108-119
Social Support and Depressed Mood
Current literature on social support identifies social structure as a source of distress. However, past efforts tend to operationalize structure in terms of demographic characteristics. The present paper argues that structure should be conceived of as participation and involvement in community and social relations. Structure may include community ties, social networks and intimate ties. We hypothesize that the three elements represent the outer l…
The Life Stress Paradigm and Psychological Distress
The paper focuses on two forces (stressors and resources) in the life stress process as they affect psychological distress. Utilizing three waves of panel data from a representative community sample in upstate New York, six causal models of the life stress process are tested with indicators of two types of stressors (social and physiological) and two types of resources (social and psychological). Both deterring and coping models are tested. Analy…
Getting Ahead in Urban China
This article argues that structural segmentation is a universal phenomenon in all complex societies and across political economies. Each political economy uses specific criteria in delineating segments of its economic and work organizations. Furthermore, it is argued that segmentation identification constitutes a critical destination status for individuals engaged in the status-attainment process. A representative sample of the working population…
Networks of Opportunity
Researchers have commonly invoked isolation from job opportunities as an explanation for persistence of gender and race inequality in the labor market, but few have examined whether access to information about job opportunities varies by race and gender. Findings from nationally representative survey data reveal significant white male advantage in the number of job leads received through routine conversations when compared to white women and Hisp…
Local market socialism
Social Capital and Health Inequality
Does social capital, resources embedded in social relationships, influence health? This research examines whether social capital impacts depressive symptoms and overall perceived health status over and above the effects of social support. Our analyses use unique data from the Taiwan Social Change Survey collected in 1997, and measures social capital and social support through two network instruments (the position generator and the name generator)…
Social capital and civic action
The Buffering Effect of Social Support Subsequent to an Important Life Event
Nan Lin, Mary W. Woelfel, Stephen C. Light, The Buffering Effect of Social Support Subsequent to an Important Life Event, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Sep., 1985), pp. 247-263
Les ressources sociales
Lin Nan. Les ressources sociales : une théorie du capital social. In: Revue française de sociologie, 1995, 36-4. Analyses de réseaux et structures relationnelles. Etudes réunies et présentées par Emmanuel Lazega, sous la direction de Emmanuel Lazega. pp. 685-704
Social Resources and Occupational Status Attainment
Local State Marketism
Drawing on an institutional analysis of China's urban housing and land market, this research demonstrates how the triangular relations among the central government, local governments, and the market evolved in response to new opportunities continuously created by market transformation and policies strictly enforced by the central government. In particular, the authors argue that the territory-based coalition between local governments and selectiv…
Analyzing the Instrumental Use of Relations in the Context of Social Structure
Employing a variation of the Small World technique for tracing social relations in the context of a larger social structure, the instrumental uses of social relations are examined in terms of the prestige and types of relations characteristic of participants m the search process. The results show that successful chains tend to involve participants of higher occupational prestige as the chains progress before 'dipping' down toward the target prest…
Occupational Prestige in Urban China
The paper reports ratings of occupational prestige by urban residents in Beijing, China. Using a representative sample (N = 1,632) of adults aged 20-64 and a selected group of 50 occupations, we found that their rankings are remarkably consistent with those found in other countries. Within the general patterns of rankings, however, specific differences are found, and these reflect not only the specific skills required and resources valued at a pa…
Depression-Mobility and Its Social Etiology
The Weaknesses of Civic Territorial Organizations
China's massive transformation in urban governance, which is characterized by breaking the link between workplace and residence and consolidating state territorial agencies at the grassroots level, has profound implications for urban residents. While community building is employed as a deliberate (top-down) approach to restore a governable urban society, the establishment, development and problems of bottom-up civic territorial organizations - ho…
Urban stress in China
Age, the Stress Process, and Physical Distress
The implications of the findings are discussed in the context of life course, theoretical issues of temporality, types of stressors, and the role of social resources. The major conclusion is that there are multiple pathways to distress that differ for different stages in the life course
Age differences in the effects of network composition on psychological distress
Cross-National Comparison of Social Support Structures between Taiwan and the United States
The study compares the effects of structural bases and functional elements of social support on mental health in Taiwan and the United States, using the study conducted in the United States by Lin, Ye, and Ensel (1999) as a reference. Based on a nationally representative sample of Taiwanese adults (n = 2,835), a fundamental similarity in social support structure and function between the two countries was observed. First, the structural bases of s…
The Process of Occupational Status Achievement
Using recently gathered survey data from Haiti and Costa Rica, this paper analyzes the relative contributions of social origins (father's occupational status) and educational achievement in explaning the intergenerational attainment of occupational status. The fndings suggest that at certain stages of societal development differential expansion in the occupational and educational spheres may reinforce the significance of social origins in the sta…
Computer Simulation of Innovation Diffusion in a Peasant Village
Hamlet's &dquo;play within a play&dquo; attempted to recreate the murder of his father in order to cause the suspected mur- derer, the King, to admit the crime.&dquo;If he but blench, I know my course&dquo; (Act II, Scene 2).The contrived reality of Ham- let's play so closely approached the actual event, that the King not only &dquo;blenched,&dquo; but rushed from the room, thereby dis- playing his guilt.This article discusses the development of …
On the Nature of Innovations
Diffusion of Family Planning Innovations
The merits of the diffusion approach in studying the adoption of family planning techniques are discussed. To use the diffusion models properly in family planning overgeneralization and rigid dependence on sequential stages in the processes must be avoided. Evidence indicates that persons with only meager knowledge and evaluation often adopt an innovation whereas sufficient knowledge and evaluation do not necessarily foster adoption. Family plann…
The McIntire March
The Mclntire-led March for Victory, held in Washington, D.C., in 1970, in support of U.S. Victory in Vietnam, provided the data for constructing a model to detect the dynamic process of participation commitment: the source and date of initial awareness and the extent of information and opinion relaying. One interesting observation was that political ideology relative to the war in Vietnam, although a dominant theme in the march, played an insigni…
Differential Effects of Information Channels in the Process of Innovation Diffusion
The inadequacy of our present conceptualization of the part played by channels of communication in the diffusion of innovations is explored. Present thought distinguishes two types of communication channels: (1) the mass media, versus (2) interpersonal channels. The inadequacy of this conceptualization—especially in underdeveloped areas—is outlined and rectified by introducing an intermediate type of communication channel: the local media. Using …
The Process of Occupational Status Achievement
Using recently gathered survey data from Haiti and Costa Rica, this paper analyzes the relative contributions of social origins (father's occupational status) and educational achievement in explaning the intergenerational attainment of occupational status. The fndings suggest that at certain stages of societal development differential expansion in the occupational and educational spheres may reinforce the significance of social origins in the sta…
The Stress-Buffering Role of Social Support
Over the pase 20 years, a sizable body of literature has developed which serves to establish that stressful life events are associated with the onset, incidence, and prevalence of a wide range of physical and psychiatric disorders. As measured by the Holmes and Rahe Social Readjustment Rating Scale, or similar instruments, the stressful life events are fundamentally sociological in nature. Yet, paradoxically, the research has been largely limited…
Communication Effects
Three theoretical perspectives have been used by researchers to examine the various aspects of communication effects: The directive perspective, which explores the manipulation and control of communication components; the selective perspective, which studies the patterns of communication utilized by participants; and the interactive perspective, which focuses on the interplay of directive and selective contributions. It is suggested that the inte…
Foundations of Social Research
Network Time Series from Archival Records
This chapter is a by-product of research supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (SOC73-05504 A02) and a fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health (3-5690-43-3453). Participants in the Corporate Actor Project at the National Opinion Research Center were helpful in pointing out confusing aspects of an early draft of the chapter, portions of which were presented in the network analysis session of the 1975 annual meet…
Assimilation of Chinese-Americans in Washington, D. C
Chinese-Americans in Washington, D. C. were studied to show their present assimilation into American society. Two contradictory hypotheses on the pace of assimilation of Chinese-Americans were tested. We found that higher socioeconomic attainment had an insignificant effect on the Chinese-American's centrifugal tendencies when the effects of education were controlled. This finding, therefore, contradicts the notion that the achievement of occupat…
Reply to Hansen and Haller
The Urban Communication Network and Social Stratification
A small world experiment, using four targets, and controlling information regarding the identification of the target's race and occupation in the packet, was conducted in a tri-city area in the Northeast. The data showed that the packets had difficulty crossing from white participants to the black network in order to reach the black targets. Within the racially defined network, communication flow is more effective downward in the status hierarchy…
Analyzing the Instrumental Use of Relations in the Context of Social Structure
Employing a variation of the Small World technique for tracing social relations in the context of a larger social structure, the instrumental uses of social relations are examined in terms of the prestige and types of relations characteristic of participants m the search process. The results show that successful chains tend to involve participants of higher occupational prestige as the chains progress before 'dipping' down toward the target prest…
Locus of Control and Symptoms of Psychological Distress Among Chinese-Americans
A sample of Chinese-Americans in the District of Columbia was drawn to examine the relationship between the locus of control, the personality factor, and two indices of symptoms of psychological distress. The findings indicated that the externals scored higher on symptomatology than did the internals. A multivariate analysis further compared the predictive utility of locus of control with other determinants of psychiatric symptoms, i.e., sex, mar…
Social Support, Stressful Life Events, and Illness
Nan Lin, Walter M. Ensel, Ronald S. Simeone, Wen Kuo, Social Support, Stressful Life Events, and Illness: A Model and an Empirical Test, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Jun., 1979), pp. 108-119
Social Resources and Strength of Ties
Nan Lin, Walter M. Ensel, John C. Vaughn, Social Resources and Strength of Ties: Structural Factors in Occupational Status Attainment, American Sociological Review, Vol. 46, No. 4 (Aug., 1981), pp. 393-405
Social Resources and Occupational Status Attainment
Causal Interpretation of Interaction Effect
Applied Network Analysis
Depression-Mobility and Its Social Etiology
Social Structure and Network Analysis
Network analysis is being increasingly looked to as a means of understanding social structure. It can shed light on how individual actions create social structure, how social structure constrains the individual, and how attitudes and behaviour are determined by social structure. Articles by leading proponents of network analysis and structuralism examine how these methodological techniques and this theoretical approach can be applied to a variety…
The Buffering Effect of Social Support Subsequent to an Important Life Event
Nan Lin, Mary W. Woelfel, Stephen C. Light, The Buffering Effect of Social Support Subsequent to an Important Life Event, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Sep., 1985), pp. 247-263
Social support, life events, and depression
Conceptualizing Social Support
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