YOUTH ENGAGEMENT: PERSONAL MOTIVATIONS AND POSITION IN SOCIAL NETWORKS

Data to analyze the social networks and motivations like predictors of social participation. University students (N = 263) estimated in an on-line survey the likelihood of their future engagement in several types of social participation. The students also estimated their possible motivations, and indicated an approximate number of their social contacts already involved in each type of participation. Based on this latter measure we were able to estimate the participants’ centrality degree in their social networks