Measuring social integration and tie strength with smartphone and survey data.

ABSTRACT: Recordings of smartphone use for contacts are increasingly being used as alternative or supplementary measurement methods for social interactions and social relations in the health sciences. Less work has been done to understand how these measures compare with widely used survey-based information. Using data from the Copenhagen Network Study, we investigated whether derived survey and smartphone measures on two widely studied concepts; Social integration and Tie strength were associated. The study population included 737 college students (mean age 21.6 years, Standard deviation: 2.6), who were followed with surveys and continuous recordings of smartphone usage over a one-month period. We derived self-reported and smartphone measures of social integration (social role diversity, social netw

SUBMITTER: Dissing AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6107109 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature