scholarly journals Predicting Students’ College Drop Out and Departure Decisions by Analyzing their Campus-Based Social Network Text Messages

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Allen ◽  
Alex Nakonechnyi ◽  
Abraham Seidmann ◽  
Jacqueline Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
Departure Decisions ◽  
College Drop Out

scholarly journals The Clubhouse Phenomenon: Do We Need Another Social Network?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wadim Strielkowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Group Psychotherapy ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Online Video ◽  
Conference Call ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Further Development

Being a combination of the conference call, talkback radio, audio podcast, and an online video chat, Clubhouse is a new social networking app that gained over 10 million users and over $100 in valuation in just 8 months. Unlike other social networks, it offers a real-time streaming audio chat that does not ask users to share any unnecessary information like exchanging text messages, conducting video calls, or sharing photos. Instead, Clubhouse users can listen to real-time conversations, contribute to these conversations and create their own conversations for the others to listen and to interact with. Often nicknamed a “Silicon Valley’s hottest start-up”, Clubhouse positions itself as an “exclusive” and “alternative” social network that attracts various celebrities and people who just want to talk to each other. Launched in March 2020, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic with its social distancing and lockdowns, Clubhouse offered its users a space for the digital group psychotherapy where people could solve their problems by talking them through with strangers. However, it is unclear what is going to happen to this new social network in the post-pandemic world after all of its hype eventually evaporates. This paper discusses the possible underlying motives for the Clubhouse creation and its real purposes. Moreover, it looks at the three possible scenarios of its further development.

scholarly journals SOCIAL NETWORK SIZE AND FREQUENCY OF ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION: THE RELATIONSHIP TO INTERPERSONAL STRESS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S174-S174
Author(s):  
Xin Yao Lin ◽  
Margie E Lachman
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Network Size ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Interpersonal Stress ◽  
Electronic Communications ◽  
Daily Diary Study ◽  
Social Network Size ◽  
Phone Calls ◽  
Video Chat ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Social relationships are beneficial for psychological wellbeing, but they are also associated with interpersonal stress. With the growing usage of multiple forms of electronic communications (EC) including phone calls, text messages, video chat, and internet among adults of all ages, it was of interest to explore the relationship between social network size (SNS), in-person communication (PC), and EC, and whether the relationship between SNS and frequency of communication is associated with interpersonal stress. A daily diary study was conducted over seven days for 142 participants ages 22 to 94. SNS was assessed with the social convoy model. Frequency of PC and EC, along with interpersonal stress, were assessed daily. As expected, multiple regression analysis results showed that older adults had smaller SNS and less frequent technology communication (text messages, video chat, internet) compared to younger adults. With regard to effects on interpersonal stress, there were no main effects for frequency of PC, EC, or SNS. However, the frequency of EC moderated the relationship between SNS and interpersonal stress, controlling for amount of PC. Among those with a smaller SNS, having more frequent EC was associated with less interpersonal stress compared to those with less frequent EC. For those with a larger SNS, having more frequent EC was associated with more interpersonal stress compared to those with less EC, but PC was not related to interpersonal stress. The discussion will consider implications of the findings for developing interventions to minimize stress from interpersonal communications, especially those that involve EC.

scholarly journals Targeted, structured text messaging to improve dietary and lifestyle behaviours for people on maintenance haemodialysis (KIDNEYTEXT): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. e023545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Stevenson ◽  
Katrina L Campbell ◽  
Mark Brown ◽  
Jonathan Craig ◽  
Kirsten Howard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Randomised Controlled Trial ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Dietary Guidelines ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Lifestyle Behaviours ◽  
Randomised Controlled

IntroductionManaging nutrition is critical for reducing morbidity and mortality in patients on haemodialysis but adherence to the complex dietary restrictions remains problematic. Innovative interventions to enhance the delivery of nutritional care are needed. The aim of this phase II trial is to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of a targeted mobile phone text messaging system to improve dietary and lifestyle behaviours in patients on long-term haemodialysis.Methods and analysisSingle-blinded randomised controlled trial with 6 months of follow-up in 130 patients on haemodialysis who will be randomised to either standard care or KIDNEYTEXT. The KIDNEYTEXT intervention group will receive three text messages per week for 6 months. The text messages provide customised dietary information and advice based on renal dietary guidelines and general healthy eating dietary guidelines, and motivation and support to improve behaviours. The primary outcome is feasibility including recruitment rate, drop-out rate, adherence to renal dietary recommendations, participant satisfaction and a process evaluation using semistructured interviews with a subset of purposively sampled participants. Secondary and exploratory outcomes include a range of clinical and behavioural outcomes and a healthcare utilisation cost analysis will be undertaken.Ethics and disseminationThe study has been approved by the Western Sydney Local Health District Human Research Ethics Committee—Westmead. Results will be presented at scientific meetings and published in peer-reviewed publications.Trial registration numberACTRN12617001084370; Pre-results.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Organization Structure Based on Email Interactions

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Palus ◽  
Piotr Bródka ◽  
Przemyslaw Kazienko
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Organization Structure ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
A Company

In every company, employees are in communication via phone, email, text messages, chats on a forum, co-author documents, events, and so forth. They collaborate with each other creating and maintaining mutual relationships in one complex social network. In this paper, the authors use this social network to evaluate company structure and based on this evaluation recommend some changes that have to be made within a company to improve its structure. The evaluation process and an example of its usage are presented in the paper.

Loneliness and College Achievement: Do Loneliness Scale Scores Predict College Drop-Out?

1993 ◽  
Vol 73 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1283-1288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken J. Rotenberg ◽  
Jon Morrison
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Introductory Psychology ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
Dropping Out ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
College Dropout ◽  
Loneliness Scale ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
College Drop Out ◽  
Academic Year

916 college students enrolled in two consecutive years of introductory psychology (1989 and 1990) were administered the Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale at the beginning of the academic year. When controlling for the number of students who withdrew because their grades were poor, loneliness scale scores predicted college dropout for men from the 1989 group and for men and women from the 1990 group. The potential of loneliness, as a state and a trait, as a predictor of dropping out of college was discussed.

scholarly journals The Effect of Credit Constraints on the College Drop-Out Decision: A Direct Approach Using a New Panel Study

2008 ◽  
Vol 98 (5) ◽  
pp. 2163-2184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph Stinebrickner ◽  
Todd Stinebrickner
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Credit Constraints ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
Direct Approach ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Standard Data ◽  
Berea College ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
College Drop Out

A serious difficulty in determining the importance of credit constraints in education arises because standard data sources do not provide a direct way of identifying which students are credit constrained. This paper differentiates itself from previous work by taking a direct approach, made possible by unique longitudinal data from the Berea Panel Study. The results from our study of Berea College students suggest that, while credit constraints likely play an important role in the drop-out decisions of some students, the large majority of attrition of students from low-income families should be primarily attributed to reasons other than credit constraints. (JEL I21, I22)

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