Upward contacts in everyday life: Benefits of reaching hierarchical relations in ego-centered networks

Fu, Yang-Chih; Velema, Thijs A.; Hwang, Jing‐Shiang

doi:10.1016/j.socnet.2018.03.002

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“…As in a recent similar diary study, 26 thus, we were able to validate the alter-to-alter ties of constructed contact networks from these 74 diary keepers. It is noteworthy that these data may not represent all the ties among the 12 070 members in 133 contact networks.…”

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Detecting concurrent mood in daily contact networks: an online participatory cohort study with a diary approach

Chan

Yen

et al. 2018

BMJ Open

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ObjectivesThis paper examines how people express personal mood concurrently with those connected with them by one or two degrees of separation.DesignParticipatory cohort study.SettingOnline contact diary.Participants133 participants kept online diaries for 7 months in 2014, which included 127 455 contacts with 12 070 persons.Main outcome measuresDiary keepers rated a contacted person’s mood during each specific contact, as well as the strength of ties between any pairs of such contacted persons. Such rich information about ties and contacts enable us to construct a complete contact network for each diary keeper, along with the network members’ mood and tie strength. We calculate one’s overall mood by that person’s average mood score during the study period and take the shortest path between any given pair of contacted persons as the degree of separation. We further assume that two connecting persons in a contact network have made contact with each other during the study period, which allows us to examine whether and how personal moods occur concurrently within these contact networks.ResultsUsing mixed-effects models while controlling for covariates at individual, tie and contact levels, we show that personal mood score positively and significantly correlates with the average mood among those directly tied to the person. The same effect remains positive and significant for those connected to the person by two degrees, although the effect size is reduced by about one-half. The mood of anyone separated by more than two degrees is statistically irrelevant.ConclusionsApplying network perspectives and rich data at both tie and contact levels to inquiries about subjective well-being, the current study sheds new light on how an improved diary approach can help explain the sophisticated ways in which individuals express their personal moods concurrently during social interactions in everyday life, contact by contact.

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Detecting concurrent mood in daily contact networks: an online participatory cohort study with a diary approach

Chan

Yen

et al. 2018

BMJ Open

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“…This second network describes the relational context of a person who distributes her social resources in two differentiated interaction spaces, although they present a certain degree of overlap. This type of relational context facilitates access to other groups, a factor that increases the opportunities for raising one’s status in the social structure [39].…”

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“…At the same time, the constriction of networks and geographic isolation make it difficult for community members to establish non-redundant daily contacts with people who occupy higher positions in the social structure. This fact is of special relevance considering that recent studies show that access to this type of people is crucial to improve living conditions and climb the social ladder [39].…”

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Underlying Dimensions of Social Cohesion in a Rural Community Affected by Wartime Violence in Colombia

Ramos-Vidal

Villamil

Uribe

2019

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War deteriorates the quality of life of the population and profoundly alters social dynamics. We discuss a rural community in northern Colombia whose population was the victim of a massacre and examine the main components that model social cohesion: (a) positive attitudes towards the community, (b) prosocial behaviours and (c) interpersonal relationships. This investigation is a cross-sectional empirical study that includes an analysis of social support networks. The research involved 106 residents, (81.1%, women), with an average age of 42.5 years (standard deviation (SD) = 16.4), who have lived in the community an average 28.8 years (SD = 18.75). Cluster analysis shows that there are two types of personal networks based on homophily and the duration of the ego-alter relationship. The networks that provide the most types of social support shows a moderate level of homophily according to the type of relationship and place of origin and in which the duration of the ego-alter relationship is shorter, compared to networks characterized by high homophily and in which the duration of the ego-alter relationship is longer (χ2 = 5.609, p < 0.018). Homophily based on place of residence actively affects the sense of community and social cohesion. Moreover, the sense of community is the variable that most affects social cohesion (β = 0.650; p < 0.001) and is, in turn, determined by prosocial behaviour (β = 0.267; p < 0.006). However, prosocial behaviours do not significantly affect interpersonal relationships or community cohesion. The results are discussed to promote social development strategies aimed at building individual, organizational and community capacity to foster psychosocial well-being in post-war contexts.

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“…While similar research shows that it was reliable to substitute self-reported mood scores with other-reported mood states, which reached an accuracy rate of 99.0% within a 1-point difference 10 , 49 , the current study took the imputation a step further by including one’s own self-reported mood states from other interactions during the study period as another base to estimate. As with most other studies of self-reported attitudes and emotions 10 , 40 , 42 , such missing information could lead to unknown biases despite a detailed imputation design.…”

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Using contact tracing from interlocking diaries to map mood contagion along network chains

Chan

Chu

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Both viruses and moods are transmitted through interpersonal contacts, but it has been extremely difficult to track each unique chain of contacts through which particular moods diffuse. By analyzing 56,060 contact records from 113 interlocking, yearlong diaries collected through a web-based platform in Taiwan, we traced mood states before and after each specific contact along a triplet of persons where B contacts C and subsequently contacts A. Multilevel analyses show that both positive and negative emotions are contagious, but the two paths diverge markedly in how the diffusion stops. Positive contact between C and B (which leads to improved mood for B) spreads to A through B’s contact with A, making A feel better afterward, regardless of whether B’s mood deteriorated between the two interactions. Negative contact between C and B (which leads to worsened mood for B) also spreads to A, making A feel worse after the contact with B. However, the spread of a negative mood discontinues if B’s mood improved between the two contacts. The different patterns of diffusion suggest that a negative mood is harder to disperse, probably because people generally make efforts to keep their negative emotions from spreading to others.

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Upward contacts in everyday life: Benefits of reaching hierarchical relations in ego-centered networks

Cited by 7 publications

References 27 publications

Detecting concurrent mood in daily contact networks: an online participatory cohort study with a diary approach

Detecting concurrent mood in daily contact networks: an online participatory cohort study with a diary approach

Underlying Dimensions of Social Cohesion in a Rural Community Affected by Wartime Violence in Colombia

Using contact tracing from interlocking diaries to map mood contagion along network chains

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