“…Methods: 280 Pakistani men and women (mean age = 25.40; SD = 5.271, range 18–50) who were current pornography users were recruited through social networking sites (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, WhatsApp groups) to participate in an online study about pathways to problematic pornography use (PPU). …”
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“…The most mentioned health promotion strategies during this period included studying (n = 170; 51.7%); physical activities (n = 151, 45.9%); social networking (n = 124, 37.7%); cooking activities (n = 120, 36.5%); and listening to music (n = 118, 35.9%). …”
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“…METHODS: A total of 2583 higher-education students from different fields of study participated in an online survey gathering information from several domains, including available social networks, support-seeking attitudes, substance use patterns, physical activity levels, academic stress, academic satisfaction, and psychological well-being during the pandemic. …”
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“…FINDINGS: The results show two types of strategic policy and management implications: (a) CEI portfolios are very broad and differentiated; (b) different social networks have diversified social constructs, internal cultures, and organizational features; and (c) there is a consequent need to contextualize relational and steering approaches in order to maximize their potential community added value. …”
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“…However, the effectiveness of regulation may be decreased by the desperate need for resources, and the regulated enterprises can also affect environmental regulation through their information advantage and social networks. This paper focuses on how local environmental regulation can be achieved under these conditions. …”
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“…Therefore, building a harmonious community environment, strengthening neighborhood communication and exchange, and making good use of peer education among neighbors may become a breakthrough to promote herd immunity, especially for vulnerable older adults with limited social networks.…”
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“…Dependency on a single income source, inadequate access to aid and financial and natural resources, lack of skills and knowledge on alternative livelihood options, absence of strong social protection and social networks, social inequalities, institutional incompetence, and lack of community leadership and cooperation severely affected fishers’ resilience. …”
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“…This type of horizontal communication where information is shared within trusted social networks can shape social norms that influence the uptake of COVID-19 preventive behaviors and slowly curb communal spread.…”
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“…They have innovated (transformative resilience) with the organisation of electronic payment and the use of social networks to raise funds and communicate with members. …”
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“…We trained a set of seven supervised machine learning classifiers on logs crowd-sourced from 2500 Indian Social Networking Sites (SNS) users and validated with 3149 tweets collected from Indian Twitter. …”
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“…Older immigrants are at increased risk for social isolation and loneliness due to cultural and linguistic barrier to forming social networks. The vulnerability to social isolation could be exacerbated by the gaps between older immigrants’ cultural expectations on social relations and actual social connectivity. …”
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“…Thematic analysis of the interview data showed that level of acculturation, proficiency in English, cultural beliefs/practices, awareness about available health and social services, degree of religiosity, and the density of social networks were key determinants of healthy aging. …”
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“…Using generalized linear regression, we modeled changes in activities of daily living (ADL) and changes in instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) as a function of race/ethnicity and sequentially adjusted for period specific risk factors including sociodemographic factors, health insurance, health behaviors and social networks. Oaxaca-Blinder Regression Decomposition (OBRD) techniques are used to assess the contributions of these factors to the observed trends in ADL/IADL. …”
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“…Older adults with cognitive impairment are at risk of higher loneliness due to increasing challenges to retain essential social skills and decreasing social networks. This study explores ways to reduce the relationship between cognitive function and loneliness. …”
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“…We conducted web-based longitudinal questionnaire surveys from March to May 2020 and from September to October 2021 among members of a Japanese social networking service. We analyzed 867 responses of people who participated in both surveys (mean age, 68.0 ± 8.0 years; men, 68.1%). …”
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“…As social networks shrink with age, older adults value the importance of interpersonal relationships with close others, such as partners, family and friends. …”
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“…The third theme highlighted that some older adults felt they were lacking strong social networks and were concerned they had nobody to contact if they needed help, while others felt that despite limitations, their social relationships grew closer due to connection through alternative forms of communication (e.g. texting). …”
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“…Due to the important role that social networks play in advertisements and propaganda, influence maximization (IM) problem which aims at finding some influential users as seeds to trigger large online cascading influence spread has been a hot research topic in the past two decades. …”
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“…Limited resources for connecting with others through technology combined with increased social distancing due to the pandemic may exacerbate older adults’ diminishing social networks and dwindling communication resources to draw upon for managing their health in later old age. …”
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“…Utilizing social capital theory four models were constructed with salient demographic characteristics associated with volunteering (model 1), caregiving context (model 2), caregiver physical and mental health (model 3), along with participation in informal and formal social networks (model 4). About a quarter of the sample participated in volunteering (26%). …”
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