We report on an interview method using photo-based network elicitation and a landmark anchoring event to collect data on relationship change in ego networks retrospectively. Using the wedding albums of married or formerly married respondents, we populate a network from many years ago with persons pictured in the album and then collect data about each respondent’s relationship with each person at the time of the wedding and at the time of the interview. This data collection method mitigates many of the problems associated with retrospective data collection and does not have the logistical difficulties associated with panel studies. Our findings show that this method is successful in collecting significant numbers of connections that have undergone change, and especially reductions in activity along various dimensions.

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结缘后注意关系：基于照片的回顾性个人网络数据的启发

我们报告了一种使用基于照片的网络启发和具有里程碑意义的锚定事件的访谈方法，以回顾性地收集有关自我网络中关系变化的数据。使用已婚或已婚受访者的婚礼相册，我们将多年前的相册中的人物填充到一个网络中，然后收集有关每个受访者在婚礼和采访时与每个人的关系的数据。这种数据收集方法减轻了与回顾性数据收集相关的许多问题，并且没有与小组研究相关的后勤困难。我们的研究结果表明，这种方法成功地收集了大量发生变化的连接，尤其是各个维度的活动减少。