• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.438-447
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• 2012

This study was to explore the social network structure of professional volleyball players and analyze network variables and resource exchange. This study selected 127 players of Korean professional volleyball in ten team of male and female using the purposive sampling method. The research method utilized general social survey of NGQ(Name Generator Question) and interview. To analyze data, NetMiner 3.0 and SNA(social network analysis) were used. The conclusion based on above study method and the result of material analysis are here below. First, social network of professional volleyball players is scale-free network following power law. Centrality and herb of club members' network show up richer-get-richer and poor-get-poor by collecting links of back of beyond. Second, social network structure of professional volleyball players influence resource exchange.