Empirical Analysis of the Spread of University Students’ Amative Behavior

Xiaoling Yu, Zhen Jia, Cuiping Zhang

College of Science, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin, China.
College of Science, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin, China;Guangxi Key Laboratory of Spatial Information and Geomatics, Guilin, China.

DOI: 10.4236/am.2013.48A019                

Abstract

We used a questionnaire to obtain data about 664 university students’ amative behavior in a campus. Then we studied dissemination rules of university students’ amative behavior on campus social network. We found the amative behavior changes over time by focusing on the analysis of love group’s influence to single people and single group’s affected degree. Meanwhile, we compared the influence of single and multiple social relationships to the spread of amative behavior, and the result shows diversity of social relationships is a significant effect factor in spreading process.

Keywords

Social Network; Amative Behavior; Propagation Behavior

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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