TY - JOUR
T1 - Relational diversity in social portfolios predicts well-being
AU - Collins, Hanne K.
AU - Hagerty, Serena F.
AU - Quoidbach, J.
AU - Norton, Michael I.
AU - Brooks, Alison Wood
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. We are grateful for research assistance from Katie Boland and feedback from Harvard’s NERD lab. J.Q. thanks the Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad, Gobierno de España (RYC-2016-21020), the BBVA Foundation (BBVA-EI-2019-D. Navarro & IN[21]_ECC_PSI_0104), and Fundación Ramon Areces (2019-Navarro) for financial support.
Funding Information:
We are grateful for research assistance from Katie Boland and feedback from Harvard’s NERD lab. J.Q. thanks the Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad, Gobierno de España (RYC-2016-21020), the BBVA Foundation (BBVA-EI-2019-D. Navarro & IN[21]_ECC_PSI_0104), and Fundación Ramon Areces (2019-Navarro) for financial support.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2022 the Author(s). Published by PNAS.
PY - 2022/10/25
Y1 - 2022/10/25
N2 - We document a link between the relational diversity of one’s social portfolio—the richness and evenness of relationship types across one’s social interactions—and well-being. Across four distinct samples, respondents from the United States who completed a preregistered survey (n = 578), respondents to the American Time Use Survey (n = 19,197), respondents to the World Health Organization’s Study on Global Aging and Adult Health (n = 10,447), and users of a French mobile application (n = 21,644), specification curve analyses show that the positive relationship between social portfolio diversity and well-being is robust across different metrics of well-being, different categorizations of relationship types, and the inclusion of a wide range of covariates. Over and above people’s total amount of social interaction and the diversity of activities they engage in, the relational diversity of their social portfolio is a unique predictor of well-being, both between individuals and within individuals over time.
AB - We document a link between the relational diversity of one’s social portfolio—the richness and evenness of relationship types across one’s social interactions—and well-being. Across four distinct samples, respondents from the United States who completed a preregistered survey (n = 578), respondents to the American Time Use Survey (n = 19,197), respondents to the World Health Organization’s Study on Global Aging and Adult Health (n = 10,447), and users of a French mobile application (n = 21,644), specification curve analyses show that the positive relationship between social portfolio diversity and well-being is robust across different metrics of well-being, different categorizations of relationship types, and the inclusion of a wide range of covariates. Over and above people’s total amount of social interaction and the diversity of activities they engage in, the relational diversity of their social portfolio is a unique predictor of well-being, both between individuals and within individuals over time.
KW - conversation
KW - diversity
KW - relationships
KW - well-being
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85140271282
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14342/5035
U2 - 10.1073/pnas.2120668119
DO - 10.1073/pnas.2120668119
M3 - Article
C2 - 36252003
AN - SCOPUS:85140271282
SN - 0027-8424
VL - 119
SP - 1
EP - 9
JO - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
IS - 43
M1 - e2120668119
ER -