Detecting concurrent mood in daily contact networks: an online participatory cohort study with a diary approach.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This paper examines how people express personal mood concurrently with those connected with them by one or two degrees of separation.

Design

Participatory cohort study.

Setting

Online contact diary.

Participants

133 participants kept online diaries for 7 months in 2014, which included 127 455 contacts with 12 070 persons.

Main outcome measures

Diary keepers rated a contacted person's mood during each specific contact, as well as the strength of ties between any pairs of such contacted persons. Such rich information about ties and contacts enable us to construct a complete contact network for each diary keeper, along with the network members' mood and tie strength. We calculate one's overall mood by that person's average mood score during the s

SUBMITTER: Chan TC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6082495 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature