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Published on: July 27, 2018
Quality of Life and Multilevel Contact Network Structures Among Healthy Adults in Taiwan: Online Participatory Cohort
Tso-Jung Yen1, Ta-Chien Chan2, Yang-Chih Fu3
1Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
Background:
People's quality of life diverges on their demographics, socioeconomic status, and social connections.
Objective:
By taking both demographic and socioeconomic features into account, we investigated how quality of life varied on social networks using data from both longitudinal surveys and contact diaries in a year-long (2015-2016) study.
Methods:
Our 4-wave, repeated measures of quality of life followed the brief version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life scale (WHOQOL-BREF). In our regression analysis, we integrated these survey measures with key time-varying and multilevel network indices based on contact diaries.
Results:
People's quality of life may decrease if their daily contacts contain high proportions of weak ties. In addition, people tend to perceive a better quality of life when their daily contacts are face-to-face or initiated by others or when they contact someone who is in a good mood or someone with whom they can discuss important life issues.
Conclusions:
Our findings imply that both functional and structural aspects of the social network play important but different roles in shaping people's quality of life.
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