Association of indicators and predictors of tie strength

Arguments deriving from the importance of the strength of social ties betwe en individuals are being applied in social and organizational analysis; how ever, lack of empirical verification of the components of the construct and lack of consistency in the use of proxy measures have made difficult the r esolution of controversies surrounding the relative merits of strong and we ak ties. This study examined the relations between predictors and indicator s of Granovetter's 1973 construct of tie strength. Marsden and Campbell's 1 984 finding of "contamination" of indicators by predictors is supported by this analysis.