Individual life courses are marked by residential mobility often associated with family and workplace changes and therefore likely to be related to the types of personal relationships people develop and maintain. Evidence about the relationship between residential mobility behaviours over the life course and personal network composition is however scarce. This study investigates this relationship among 747 individuals living in Switzerland using regression models and standard deviational ellipse for analysing all residential locations in Switzerland and their duration over the life course. Results show that people with low residential mobility have personal networks centred around the partner and vertical family ties (parents and children), confirming that strong intergenerational ties develop in close proximity. By contrast, longer distance residential moves at the regional level are associated with small personal networks centred around peers and horizontal ties (such as friends and siblings). The network composition of people with mobility experiences at the national level does not differ from the network composition of non-movers when controlling for socio-demographic characteristics. Likewise, networks including in-laws and extended family members and large mixed networks including both family and friends were not associated with a particular residential mobility trajectory. The density of the Swiss transport system enabling people to stay connected to family and friends may partly explain the weak association between residential mobility behaviours and the composition of personal networks.

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瑞士居民流动行为对个人网络构成的影响分析

个人生活课程的特点是居住流动性通常与家庭和工作场所的变化有关，因此可能与人们发展和维持的个人关系类型有关。然而，关于生命历程中的住宅流动行为与个人网络构成之间关系的证据很少。本研究使用回归模型和标准差椭圆来调查居住在瑞士的 747 个人之间的这种关系，以分析瑞士的所有居住地点及其在整个生命过程中的持续时间。结果表明，居住流动性低的人拥有以伴侣和垂直家庭关系（父母和孩子）为中心的个人网络，这证实了紧密的代际关系发展。相比之下，区域层面的远距离居住迁移与以同龄人和横向关系（如朋友和兄弟姐妹）为中心的小型个人网络有关。在控制社会人口特征时，国家层面有流动经历的人的网络构成与非流动者的网络构成没有区别。同样，包括姻亲和大家庭成员在内的网络以及包括家人和朋友在内的大型混合网络与特定的住宅移动轨迹无关。瑞士交通系统的密度使人们能够与家人和朋友保持联系，这可能部分解释了住宅移动行为与个人网络构成之间的弱关联。