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Transitivity and couple relationship satisfaction: Sharing and visiting friends and family make the difference

Vincent Kaufmann, Gil Viry, Alexis Gumy, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Florian Lucien Jacques Masse

This study examined the relationship between couple relationship satisfaction and the transitivity of ties with family and friends within couples, i.e., the tendency of partners to share friends and family. In this case, transitivity was measured by using ...

2025

Migration distance from birthplace and its association with relative income and employment share among heterosexual couples in Switzerland

Vincent Kaufmann, Gil Viry, Alexis Gumy, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Florian Lucien Jacques Masse

Among heterosexual couples, employment of the female partner may suffer from household migration often driven by the job of the male partner. Most research has traditionally focused on the distance moved after couple formation and has neglected how far par ...

2024

Can Spatial Proximity to Another Country Drive Short-distance Transnationalism? Evidence from Social Ties in Three European Border Regions

Vincent Kaufmann, Gil Viry, Alexis Gumy, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Florian Lucien Jacques Masse

This article draws inspiration from social network analysis (SNA) to investigate the impact of spatial proximity on the geography of strong social ties in three European border regions. We consider cross-border friendship and kinship as a measure of shortd ...

Informa UK Limited2024

Happy Together ? The effect of Social Visits on Couple Satisfaction

Vincent Kaufmann, Gil Viry, Alexis Gumy, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Florian Lucien Jacques Masse

2022

Migration and distance from hometowns: Impact on relative income and employment share within couples in Switzerland

Vincent Kaufmann, Gil Viry, Alexis Gumy, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Florian Lucien Jacques Masse

2022

Analysing the effects of residential mobility behaviours on the composition of personal network in Switzerland

Vincent Kaufmann, Gil Viry, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon

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 res ...

2021

Understanding the Reconstruction of Personal Networks Through Residential Trajectories

Vincent Kaufmann, Gil Viry, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon

This article examines how residential trajectories influence the spatiality and composition of personal networks. Three mechanisms are considered: the addition of spatially close network members, the selection of spatially distant network members, and the ...

2020

Analysing the Role of Social Visits on Migrants’ Social Capital: A Personal Network Approach

Gil Viry, Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet

There are concerns that migrants may be embedded in far-flung networks with support being less collective. The spatial dispersion of their relatives and friends would result in fragmented networks with lower solidarity and lower mutual trust than densely c ...

2017

Carrières académiques: comment concilier mobilités spatiales et vie de famille?

Vincent Kaufmann, Gil Viry, Stéphanie Vincent

GERFLINT2010

Does it matter for us that my partner or I commute ? Spatial mobility for job reasons and the quality of conjugal relationships in France, Germany, and Switzerland

Vincent Kaufmann, Gil Viry

Spatial mobility has often been considered a detrimental factor for families for various reasons, stemming from increasing stress, unpredictability of daily life, increasing gender inequalities, and decreasing investment in parenting and partnerships due t ...

2010

La grande mobilité géographique pour des raisons professionnelles en Suisse: une étape de vie pré-familiale ?

Vincent Kaufmann, Gil Viry

2009