Advocating for the Use of Social Network Analysis in Individual Psychology

In this article, the authors advocate for the use of current social network analysis methodology to contribute to research on the theory and practice of Individual Psychology. This can occur by focusing on the measures of the relationships within the groups themselves or by relating relationships between members of groups to characteristics of individuals in the group. To accomplish this, some of the applicable measures of social networks are centrality, transitivity, clustering, and diameter. Several examples are presented in which social network analysis can be applied in Individual Psychology, including a possible construct validity study for existing measures of dimensions within Gemeinschaftsgefühl.