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Applications of optimal matching analysis in the social

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This study tests the hypothesis that individuals' identification of family members has an impact on the type of family-based social capital available to them. Data from a sample of college students from three universities in Switzerland (N = 229), provided evidence that seven typical family configurations coexist. These configurations vary with respect to the importance given to partnerships, friendships, stepparents and parents' relatives. Family configurations based on blood connections provide a 'binding' type of social capital, that is, densely connected family networks with low individual centrality, whereas family configurations based on friendship provide a 'bridging' type of social capital, that is, sparsely connected family networks with high individual centrality. Postdivorce family configurations are associated with neither type of social capital. KEY WORDS: divorce • family networks • family network method (FNM) • kinship • remarriage • social capitalIn recent decades, family and relationship scholars documented the emergence of significant family configurations that cannot be circumscribed by a household or a limited set of family roles (for a review, see Widmer, 1999a). Little empirical research, however, focused on how people identify Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

We analyze survey data from 23

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