Network Diversity and Affect Dynamics: The Role of Personality Traits.

ABSTRACT: People divide their time unequally among their social contacts due to time constraints and varying strength of relationships. It was found that high diversity of social communication, dividing time more evenly among social contacts, is correlated with economic well-being both at macro and micro levels. Besides economic well-being, it is not clear how the diversity of social communication is also associated with the two components of individuals' subjective well-being, positive and negative affect. Specifically, positive affect and negative affect are two independent dimensions representing the experience (feeling) of emotions. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between the daily diversity of social communication and dynamic affect states that people experience in their daily li

SUBMITTER: Alshamsi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4817969 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature