Personal Social Networks and Adiposity in Adolescents: A Feasibility Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Ybarra ◽  
Tracie A. Barnett ◽  
Jennifer Yu ◽  
Andraea Van Hulst ◽  
Olivier Drouin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Feasibility Study ◽  
Personal Social Networks

Dynamic personal social networks

2003 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 139-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Henri ter Hofte ◽  
Ingrid Mulder
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Personal Social Networks

scholarly journals Visualizations of personal social networks on Facebook and community structure: an exploratory study

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Gkini ◽  
Alexios Brailas
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Community Structure ◽  
Single Point ◽  
Community Formation ◽  
Structure Pattern ◽  
Diffusion Of Information ◽  
Qualitative Interpretation ◽  
Network Topologies ◽  
Personal Social Networks ◽  
And Diffusion

We studied the community structure pattern in the visualizations of ten personal social networks on Facebook at a single point in time. It seems to be a strong tendency towards community formation in online personal, social networks: somebody’s friends are usually also friends between them, forming subgroups of more densely connected nodes. Research on community structure in social networks usually focuses on the networks’ statistical properties. There is a need for qualitative studies bridging the gap between network topologies and their sociological implications. To this direction, visual representations of personal networks in social media could be a valuable source of empirical data for qualitative interpretation. Most of the personal social networks’ visualizations in the present study are very highly clustered with densely-knit overlapping subgroups of friends and interconnected between them through wide bridges. This network topology pattern seems to be quite efficient, allowing for a fast spread and diffusion of information across the whole social network.

The personal social network of psychiatric service users

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (7) ◽  
pp. 682-692
Author(s):  
François Wyngaerden ◽  
Marie Tempels ◽  
Jean-Louis Feys ◽  
Vincent Dubois ◽  
Vincent Lorant
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Psychosocial Functioning ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Psychiatric Service ◽  
Size Composition ◽  
Mapping Technique ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Personal Network ◽  
Personal Social Networks

Background: For psychiatric service users, the personal social network offers resources such as behavioural guidance, social support, and coherence of care delivery. So far, most research on the subject has assessed the availability of these resources using size and composition measures. However, the availability of network resources also depends on the cohesion of the relationships between network members, a topic that is rarely addressed in the literature. Aims: In this article, we aim to describe the cohesion of psychiatric service users’ networks. Method: We carried out a personal network survey and collected data on the social networks of 380 service users recruited in outpatient and inpatient services in Belgium. We used an ego-network mapping technique. The data were analysed using several structural metrics describing size, composition, and cohesion. We carried out analysis of variance (ANOVA) in relation to residential status, level of education, psychiatric history, and psychosocial functioning and analysed three cohesion indicators (density, fragmentation, and centralisation) with regression analyses. Results: Personal social networks were small and not very cohesive. Most were composed of a dense subgroup as well as several isolated network members. The analyses revealed that highly educated psychiatric service users had more fragmented networks, while users living in independent accommodation had less dense networks. Density and fragmentation were not associated with the severity of psychosocial functioning, whereas centralisation was. Conclusions: The low level of cohesion may indicate that service users aim to access multiple and diverse social resources and that better-off service users are more successful at doing so. On the whole, however, these personal social networks were fragile, because they contained a high number of isolated network members. Finally, it could be beneficial for professionals to pay special attention to the central persons within the networks of psychiatric service users.

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