TY  - JOUR
AU  - Yen, Tso-Jung
AU  - Chan, Ta-Chien
AU  - Fu, Yang-Chih
AU  - Hwang, Jing-Shiang
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/1/28
TI  - Quality of Life and Multilevel Contact Network Structures Among Healthy Adults in Taiwan: Online Participatory Cohort Study
JO  - J Med Internet Res
SP  - e23762
VL  - 24
IS  - 1
KW  - contact diary
KW  - egocentric networks
KW  - social support
KW  - weak ties
KW  - World Health Organization Quality of Life Survey
KW  - quality of life
KW  - networks
KW  - demography
KW  - society
AB  - 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. 
SN  - 1438-8871
UR  - https://www.jmir.org/2022/1/e23762
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2196/23762
UR  - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35089142
DO  - 10.2196/23762
ID  - info:doi/10.2196/23762
ER  -