%0 Journal Article
%@ 1438-8871
%I JMIR Publications
%V 24
%N 1
%P e23762
%T Quality of Life and Multilevel Contact Network Structures Among Healthy Adults in Taiwan: Online Participatory Cohort Study
%A Yen,Tso-Jung
%A Chan,Ta-Chien
%A Fu,Yang-Chih
%A Hwang,Jing-Shiang
%+ Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Environmental Changes Research Building, No.128, Academia Road, Section 2, Nankang, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan, 886 0981451477, tjyen@stat.sinica.edu.tw
%K contact diary
%K egocentric networks
%K social support
%K weak ties
%K World Health Organization Quality of Life Survey
%K quality of life
%K networks
%K demography
%K society
%D 2022
%7 28.1.2022
%9 Original Paper
%J J Med Internet Res
%G English
%X 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. 
%M 35089142
%R 10.2196/23762
%U https://www.jmir.org/2022/1/e23762
%U https://doi.org/10.2196/23762
%U http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35089142