How does tie strength and subjective social class affect mobilization of parental aid in the job search process?
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Amazon Mechanical Turk survey results, N = 45
- job_desc: description of job
- e_class: respondent's perception of own social class
- network_size: respondent's estimate of mobilized network size
- mother_activation: respondent's utilization of mother for instrumental aid
- father_activation: respondent's utilization of father for instrumental aid
- mother_closeness: respondent's estimate of closeness with mother
- mother_contact: respondent's estimate of frequency of contact with mother
- mother_class: respondent's perception of mother's social class
- father_closeness: respondent's estimate of closeness with father
- father_contact: respondent's estimate of frequency of contact with father
- father_class: respondent's perception of own social class
- e_race: respondent's race
- e_gender: respondent's gender
- e_ethnicity: respondent's ethnicity
- att_check: attention check question
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H1: Tie strength is positively associated with an individual’s mobilization of their mother only when accounting for the father’s social class
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H2: Tie strength is positively associated with an individual’s mobilization of their father: supported
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H3: An individual is more likely to mobilize their mother for instrumental job search aid if they perceive the mother to have high social class: not supported
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H4: An individual is more likely to mobilize their father for instrumental job search aid if they perceive the father to have high social class: not supported
- statsmodel 0.13.2
- numpy 1.21.5
- pandas 1.3.5
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