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Social Activities

- General Information
- Items used in BASE
- Aggregated Variables
- Raw Constructs Created in BASE

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Social Activities:
General Information

When? | Time 1 | Time 2 | Time 3 | Time 4 | Time 5 | Time 6 | Time 7
Where? | Intensive Protocol (IP) | - | - | - | - | - | -
Questionnaire | IP: Social relationships (Section D) | - | - | - | - | - | -
SIR Data bank | IP: Psycho rec/table 1 (P1data) rec/table 2 (P1const) | - | - | - | - | - | -

Social activities of the BASE participants were assessed within the social relationships questionnaire of the intensive protocol. Participants were asked three questions concerning visits and common activities, which could be answered with yes or no (e.g. "Thinking of the past four weeks, did anyone visit you at home?"). For each question that a participant had answered with yes, he or she could name up to five activity partners. If the mentioned activity partner had not been named in the circle task (Kahn & Antonucci, 1980), which had been performed at the beginning of the questionnaire, the participant was asked to give the following information about him or her: Name, number of circle, gender, type of relationship, age, place of residence, duration of relationship, frequency of contact and changes of the relationship within the last five years.

Literature: Wagner, Schütze, & Lang, 1996, 1999.

- General Information
- Items used in BASE
- Aggregated Variables
- Raw Constructs Created in BASE

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Social Activities:
Items used in BASE

| BASE items / variables | English translation | Variable names Time 1
1. | Wenn Sie an die letzten vier Wochen denken, hat Sie da jemand zu Hause besucht? | Thinking of the past four weeks, did anyone visit you at home? | b1ugast*
2. | Wenn Sie an die letzten vier Wochen denken, haben Sie da jemanden besucht? | Thinking of the past four weeks, did you visit anyone at home? | b1ubsu*
3. | Wenn Sie an die letzten vier Wochen denken, haben Sie da mit jemandem etwas gemeinsam unternommen, z. B. haben Sie mit jemandem etwas im Fernsehen angeschaut oder Karten gespielt. oder sind mit jemandem ins Theater oder Kino gegangen, oder haben gemeinsam einen Spaziergang gemacht? | Thinking of the past four weeks, did you undertake anything with anyone, e. g. Did you watch TV with anyone or play cards, or did you go to the theater or movies with anyone, or go for a walk? | b1uaktiv*

> > * values significant for network member:

> > 1 = network member was involved in activity;
> > 0 = network member was not involved in activity.

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- Items used in BASE
- Aggregated Variables
- Raw Constructs Created in BASE

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Social Activities:
Aggregated Variables in BASE

Aggregated variable | Variable names Time 1
Network partner visited participant | b1vebs *
0 = no, 1 = yes
Network partner was visited by participant | b1vgbs *
0 = no, 1 = yes
Network partner shares leisure activities | b1vaktiv *
0 = no, 1 = yes
Different activities | b1vsa *
Sum score (vars b1vebs, b1vgbs, b1vaktiv)

> > * values significant for network member:

> > 1 = network member was involved in activity;
> > 0 = network member was not involved in activity.

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- Items used in BASE
- Aggregated Variables
- Raw Constructs Created in BASE

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Social Activities:
Constructs Created in BASE

Constructs | Construct names Time 1
Persons who visited participant (Number) | b1iebs
Sum score (b1vebs)
Persons who were visited by participant (Number) | b1igbs
Sum score (b1vgbs)
Activity partners (Number) | b1iaktiv
Sum score (b1vaktiv)
Different activities with other persons | b1iva
Sum score (b1iebs *, b1igs *, b1iaktiv *)
Number of activities (overall) | b1iaga
Sum score (sum (b1vebs, b1vgbs, b1vaktiv))
Activities per partner | b1iada
mean (sum (b1vebs, b1vgbs, b1vaktiv))
Number of activity partners | b1ianp

* Variables have been recoded as follows: 0 = 0, else = 1

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- Items used in BASE
- Aggregated Variables
- Raw Constructs Created in BASE

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