Accepted for/Published in: Journal of Medical Internet Research
Date Submitted: Aug 22, 2020
Date Accepted: Dec 10, 2021
Quality of life and multilevel contact network structures: an online participatory cohort study among healthy adults in Taiwan
ABSTRACT
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 yearlong study.
Methods:
Our four-wave repeated measures of quality of life follow 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 or embedded ties. In contrast, people tend to perceive a better quality of life when their daily contacts are face-to-face or initiated by others, and when they contact 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 QoL (quality of life).
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