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Social Support System

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Social Context of Activities

For each activity mentioned, participants were asked whether they were alone or who was with them.

The following variables were aggregated for each of the activities which the participants pursued alone or in company:

(a) the total length of time in which the activity was pursued either alone or in the company of the various people mentioned over the course of the day (minutes)

(b) the number of various activities at which the people mentioned were present (frequency), and

(c) the percentage of time (of the total waking hours of the participant in question) which the people mentioned spent with the participant (percent).

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Social Support System:
Social Context of Activities:
Raw Constructs Created in BASE

Note:
According to the design, IP construct names for Time 1 have the prefix q1,
names for Time 3 have the prefix q3, and names for Time 4 have the prefix q4.

Constructs | Construct names Time 1 | Construct names Time 3 | Construct names Time 4
Social partners: time spent with...
alone
minutes | q1sdau1 | + | +
frequency | q1ssum1 | + | +
percent | q1sprda1 | + | +
partner
minutes | q1sdau2 | + | +
frequency | q1ssum2 | + | +
percent | q1sprda2 | + | +
children
minutes | q1sdau3 | + | +
frequency | q1ssum3 | + | +
percent | q1sprda3 | + | +
relative
minutes | q1sdau4 | + | +
frequency | q1ssum4 | + | +
percent | q1sprda4 | + | +
professional helper
minutes | q1sdau5 | + | +
frequency | q1ssum5 | + | +
percent | q1sprda5 | + | +
friend
minutes | q1sdau6 | + | +
frequency | q1ssum6 | + | +
percent | q1sprda6 | + | +
other persons
minutes | q1sdau7 | + | +
frequency | q1ssum7 | + | +
percent | q1sprda7 | + | +
roommate
minutes | q1sdau8 | + | +
frequency | q1ssum8 | + | +
percent | q1sprda8 | + | +
group
minutes | q1sdau9 | + | +
frequency | q1ssum9 | + | +
percent | q1sprda9 | + | +
alone
minutes | q1sdauxa | + | +
percent | q1sprxa | + | +
with family
minutes | q1sdauxf | + | +
sum score (q*sdau2, q*sdau3, q*sdau4)
percent | q1sprxf | + | +
sum score (q*sprda2, q*sprda3, q*sprda4)
with others
minutes | q1sdauxo | + | +
sum score (q*sdau5, q*sdau6, q*sdau7, q*sdau8)
percent | q1sprxo | + | +
sum score (q*sprda5, q*sprda6, q*sprda7, q*sprda8)
not alone
minutes | q1sdsum | + | +
sum score (q*sprda2 to q*sprda9)
percent | q1spsum | + | +
sum score (q*sprda2 to q*sprda9)
Complexity of social roles
| q1spvar | + | +
number of different categories

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