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Holly A Swartz - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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prospective assessment of Social network quality among depressed mothers treated with brief psychotherapy the Social network quality snq scales
Comprehensive Psychiatry, 2017Co-Authors: Luis E Flores, Jill M Cyranowski, Marlissa C Amole, Holly A SwartzAbstract:Abstract Objective Social relationships play important Roles in emotional health, and are common targets of psychotherapeutic interventions. To better evaluate Social relationship structure and function in the context of psychotherapy trials, this study introduces and psychometrically evaluates the Social Network Quality (SNQ) scales, which supplement the Social Network Index (SNI). The original SNI evaluates Social network structure (i.e., extent of participation in diverse Social Roles and number of Social relationships). The SNQ adds two Social network quality scales evaluating levels of: (a) positivity/support, and (b) negativity/stress, within and across specific Social Roles. Method Participants included 168 depressed mothers of psychiatrically-ill children participating in a psychotherapy treatment trial utilizing interpersonal therapy (IPT) and brief supportive therapy (BSP). The SNI, SNQ, and measures of Social functioning and psychopathology were collected at baseline and at 3-month intervals over a one-year period. Results SNQ scores showed meaningful concurrent relationships with measures of Social support and interpersonal distress, as well as incremental utility in explaining variance in relationship and mood outcomes above and beyond the SNI. SNQ scores also detected global and relationship-specific changes in Social relationship quality following psychotherapy treatment. Conclusion This report demonstrates that SNQ scales reliably assess psychotherapy-induced changes in relationship quality.
Luis E Flores - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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prospective assessment of Social network quality among depressed mothers treated with brief psychotherapy the Social network quality snq scales
Comprehensive Psychiatry, 2017Co-Authors: Luis E Flores, Jill M Cyranowski, Marlissa C Amole, Holly A SwartzAbstract:Abstract Objective Social relationships play important Roles in emotional health, and are common targets of psychotherapeutic interventions. To better evaluate Social relationship structure and function in the context of psychotherapy trials, this study introduces and psychometrically evaluates the Social Network Quality (SNQ) scales, which supplement the Social Network Index (SNI). The original SNI evaluates Social network structure (i.e., extent of participation in diverse Social Roles and number of Social relationships). The SNQ adds two Social network quality scales evaluating levels of: (a) positivity/support, and (b) negativity/stress, within and across specific Social Roles. Method Participants included 168 depressed mothers of psychiatrically-ill children participating in a psychotherapy treatment trial utilizing interpersonal therapy (IPT) and brief supportive therapy (BSP). The SNI, SNQ, and measures of Social functioning and psychopathology were collected at baseline and at 3-month intervals over a one-year period. Results SNQ scores showed meaningful concurrent relationships with measures of Social support and interpersonal distress, as well as incremental utility in explaining variance in relationship and mood outcomes above and beyond the SNI. SNQ scores also detected global and relationship-specific changes in Social relationship quality following psychotherapy treatment. Conclusion This report demonstrates that SNQ scales reliably assess psychotherapy-induced changes in relationship quality.
Suzanne Moffatt - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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supporting well being in retirement through meaningful Social Roles systematic review of intervention studies
Milbank Quarterly, 2013Co-Authors: Ben Heaven, Laura J E Brown, Martin White, Linda Errington, John C Mathers, Suzanne MoffattAbstract:Context: The marked demographic change toward greater proportions of older people in developed nations poses significant challenges for health and Social care. Several studies have demonstrated an association between Social Roles in laterlifeandpositivehealthandwell-beingoutcomes.Afterretiringfromwork, people may lose Roles that provide purpose and Social contacts. The outcomes of interventions to promote Social Roles in retirement have not been systematically reviewed. Methods: We examined three research questions: (1) What kinds of intervention have been developed to promote Social Roles in retirement? (2) How much have they improved perceived Roles? (3) Have these Roles improved health or well-being? We included those studies that evaluated the provision of Social Roles;usedacontrolorcomparisongroup;targetedhealthyretirement-transition adults who were living in the community; provided an abstract written in English; took place in a highly developed nation; and reported Social role, health, or well-being outcomes. We searched eight electronic databases and combined the results with hand searches. Findings: Through our searches, we identified 9,062 unique publications and eleven evaluative studies of acceptable quality, which reported seven interventions that met our inclusion criteria. These interventions varied in year of inception and scope, but only two were based outside North America. The
Mohamad Ghassany - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The identification and influence of Social Roles in a Social media product community
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 2017Co-Authors: Lamya Benamar, Christine Balagué, Mohamad GhassanyAbstract:This research focuses on the identification of Social Roles and an investigation of their influence in online context. Relying on a systemic approach for role conceptualization, we investigate member's activity, shared content and position in the network within a consumer to consumer Social media-based community (SMC) around a product. This investigation led to the identification of ten core Roles, based on three key elements: object of interest (product, practice, and community), main contribution type (sharing information and seeking information), individual orientation (factual, emotional). We propose an explanation about how these Roles, through their positioning, participate in the community dynamics and how they contribute to the creation and diffusion of cookery as a Social practice, shaping the periphery around this practice.
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Analyzing interactions and identifying Social Roles in a brand community on Social networks
2016Co-Authors: Lamya Benamar, Christine Balagué, Mohamad GhassanyAbstract:This research focuses on the understanding of brand communities created by consumers on Social networks, by identifying the Social Roles of its members. We analyze the different users' Roles through three levels of analysis: activity, content shared, structural position in the network. Our data come from a specific brand community on Facebook. The considered brand is worldwide famous and belongs to the Small Household Equipment market. We coded more than one thousand posts to provide a content analysis. We first apply two types of analysis: quantitative and qualitative. We conceptualize the role as observable behaviors, created by the individual position in the network and his interactions with the other members. Analysis led to the detection of nine different Roles, based on three criteria: the subject of interest (product/practice); the individual objective (learning/knowledge sharing); the individual orientation (factual/relational). In a second step and in order to improve the understanding of the Social Roles in the community, we run a structural approach by qualifying each member of the community by network structure variables. We show that network structure variables provide valuable insights for better understanding the interactions between members and their Roles. We show that it is valuable for managers to characterize Social networks users by their Social Roles by analyzing content and structural position. This work opens new topics for future research on monitoring interactions, Social Roles and users' actions on Social networks and their impact on markets and marketing strategies.
Michelle Scalise Sugiyama - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Social Roles, prestige, and health risk
Human Nature, 2003Co-Authors: Lawrence Scott Sugiyama, Michelle Scalise SugiyamaAbstract:Selection pressure from health risk is hypothesized to have shaped adaptations motivating individuals to attempt to become valued by other individuals by generously and recurrently providing beneficial goods and/or services to them because this strategy encouraged beneficiaries to provide costly health care to their benefactors when the latter were sick or injured. Additionally, adaptations are hypothesized to have co-evolved that motivate individuals to attend to and value those who recurrently provide them with important benefits so they are willing in turn to provide costly care when a valued person is disabled or in dire need. Individuals in egalitarian foraging bands can provide a number of valuable benefits, such as defense, diplomacy, food, healing, information, technical skill, or trading savvy. We therefore expect that humans have evolved psychological mechanisms motivating the pursuit and cultivation of a difficult-to-replace Social role based on the provisioning of a benefit that confers a fitness advantage on its recipients. We call this phenomenon Social niche specialization . One such niche that has been well-documented is meat-sharing. Here we present cross-cultural evidence that individuals cultivate two other niches, information and tool production, that serve (among other things) to buffer health risk.
