The power of dynamic social networks to predict individuals' mental health Conference

Liu, S, Hachen, D, Lizardo, O et al. (2020). The power of dynamic social networks to predict individuals' mental health . 25(2020), 635-646.

cited authors

  • Liu, S; Hachen, D; Lizardo, O; Poellabauer, C; Striegel, A; Milenkovic, T

abstract

  • Precision medicine has received attention both in and outside the clinic. We focus on the latter, by exploiting the relationship between individuals' social interactions and their men-tal health to predict one's likelihood of being depressed or anxious from rich dynamic social network data. Existing studies differ from our work in at least one aspect: They do not model social interaction data as a network; they do so but analyze static network data; they exam-ine \correlation" between social networks and health but without making any predictions; or they study other individual traits but not mental health. In a comprehensive evaluation, we show that our predictive model that uses dynamic social network data is superior to its static network as well as non-network equivalents when run on the same data. Supplemen-tary material for this work is available at https://nd.edu/~cone/NetHealth/PSB-SM.pdf.

publication date

  • January 1, 2020

start page

  • 635

end page

  • 646

volume

  • 25

issue

  • 2020