in this comment, i build on shiffman’s call for the global health community to more deeply investigate structural and productive power. i highlight two challenges we must grapple with as social scientists carrying out the types of investigation that shiffman proposes: the politics of  challenging the powerful; and the need to investigate types of expertise that have traditionally been thought o...

Theories of social relations suggest that individuals' personal networks reflect multiple aspects of relationships, and that different constellations are more or less supportive of well-being. Using data from the Berlin Aging Study (N = 516; age, M = 85 years), we derived network types that reflect information about structure, function, and quality, and we examined their association with well-b...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY This study was designed to identify social network types among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) older adults and examine the relationship between social network type and mental health. DESIGN AND METHODS We analyzed the 2014 survey data of LGBT adults aged 50 and older (N = 2,450) from Aging with Pride: National Health, Aging, and Sexuality/Gender Study. Lat...

In all domains, including eHumanities, it is crucial to understand how people seek information and what kinds of questions they ask. In this paper, we present an annotation study of domain-specific questions collected from the current leading social Question and Answer site, namely Yahoo! Answers. We define an annotation scheme with 9 question types and additional attributes to identify unclear...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the association between social support and medication adherence. STUDY DESIGN A search of articles published before November 2010 in peer-reviewed, healthcare-related journals was conducted using PubMed, EMBASE, and Web of Science, and search terms related to social support (social support OR friend OR family OR agency) and adherence (patient compliance OR medication ad...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To determine the types of social support that African Americans use to cope with the experience of cancer. RESEARCH APPROACH Qualitative study using a grounded theory approach. SETTING Participants' homes in the southeastern United States. PARTICIPANTS A purposeful sample of 13 African American men (aged 61-79 years) treated for prostate cancer and 15 African American w...

Online social networking is increasingly popular and is a feature of many websites. Providing multiple types of relationship, such as friend, fan or colleague, can enhance the significance of the networks. We present an empirical study of an online political forum where users engage in content creation, voting, and discussion. The users also make explicit connections via three relationship type...

OBJECTIVES Presence of informal social networks has been associated with favorable health and behaviors, but whether different types of social networks impact on different health outcomes remains largely unknown. We examined the associations of different social network types (marital dyad, household, friendship, and informal community networks) with acute stroke preparedness behavior. We hypoth...

The purpose of the study is to examine how students manifest social presence in IT-supported teaching methods. Specifically, the research examined how students’ psychological type, as measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, affects their perception of social presence in a specific IT-supported teaching method. Findings revealed that extraverts felt a higher perception of social presence th...

Aim. The quantitative genetics underlying correlated behavioural traits (''animal personality") have hitherto been studied mainly in domesticated animals. Here we report the repeatability (R) and heritability (h(2)) of behavioural types in the highly social cichlid fish Neolamprologus pulcher. Methods. We tested 1779 individuals repeatedly and calculated the h(2) of behavioural types by varianc...