From: Personal social networks and organizational affiliation of South Asians in the United States
 | Alter Relationship | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Spouse/Partner | Child | Sibling | Other Kin | Friend | Other | Total | ||||||||
N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | |
Talk about worries | ||||||||||||||
 Most of the time | 439 | 77.7 | 388 | 54.3 | 186 | 49.3 | 182 | 41.8 | 364 | 51.1 | 47 | 25.0 | 1606 | 53.7 |
 Sometimes | 104 | 18.4 | 241 | 33.7 | 153 | 40.6 | 162 | 37.2 | 225 | 31.6 | 66 | 35.1 | 951 | 31.8 |
 Rarely/Never | 22 | 3.9 | 86 | 12.0 | 38 | 10.1 | 91 | 20.9 | 124 | 17.4 | 75 | 39.9 | 436 | 14.6 |
Rely on | ||||||||||||||
 Most of the time | 530 | 93.8 | 575 | 80.4 | 259 | 68.7 | 294 | 67.6 | 487 | 68.3 | 91 | 48.4 | 2236 | 74.7 |
 Sometimes | 30 | 5.3 | 92 | 12.9 | 86 | 22.8 | 85 | 19.5 | 158 | 22.2 | 61 | 32.4 | 512 | 17.1 |
 Rarely/Never | 5 | 0.9 | 48 | 6.7 | 32 | 8.5 | 56 | 12.9 | 68 | 9.5 | 36 | 19.1 | 245 | 8.2 |
Makes too many demands | ||||||||||||||
 Most of the time | 94 | 16.6 | 51 | 7.1 | 10 | 2.7 | 9 | 2.1 | 6 | 0.8 | 9 | 4.8 | 179 | 6.0 |
 Sometimes | 199 | 35.2 | 188 | 26.3 | 66 | 17.5 | 76 | 17.5 | 62 | 8.7 | 24 | 12.8 | 615 | 20.5 |
 Rarely/Never | 272 | 48.1 | 476 | 66.6 | 301 | 79.8 | 350 | 80.5 | 645 | 90.5 | 155 | 82.4 | 2199 | 73.5 |
Criticizes you | ||||||||||||||
 Most of the time | 87 | 15.4 | 37 | 5.2 | 9 | 2.4 | 4 | 0.9 | 11 | 1.5 | 2 | 1.1 | 150 | 5.0 |
 Sometimes | 258 | 45.7 | 236 | 33.0 | 105 | 27.9 | 69 | 15.9 | 97 | 13.6 | 34 | 18.1 | 799 | 26.7 |
 Rarely/Never | 220 | 38.9 | 442 | 61.8 | 263 | 69.8 | 362 | 83.2 | 605 | 84.9 | 152 | 80.9 | 2044 | 68.3 |
Total | 565 | 100 | 715 | 100 | 377 | 100 | 435 | 100 | 713 | 100 | 188 | 100 | 2993 | 100 |