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Article: Triadic Embeddedness Structure in Family Networks Predicts Mobile Communication Response to a Sudden Natural Disaster
Title | Triadic Embeddedness Structure in Family Networks Predicts Mobile Communication Response to a Sudden Natural Disaster |
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Issue Date | 2021 |
Publisher | Nature Research: Fully open access journals. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.nature.com/ncomms/index.html |
Citation | Nature Communications, 2021, v. 12 n. 1, p. article no. 4286 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Kinship networks are a fundamental social unit in human societies, and like social networks in general, provide social support in times of need. Here, we investigate the impact of sudden environmental shock, the Ms 7.0 2013 Ya’an earthquake, on the mobile communications patterns of local families, which we operationalize using anonymized individual-level mobile telecommunications metadata from family plan subscribers of a major carrier (N = 35,565 people). We demonstrate that families’ communications dynamics after the earthquake depended on their triadic embeddedness structure, a structural metric we propose that reflects the number of dyads in a family triad that share social ties. We find that individuals in more embedded family structures were more likely to first call other family plan members and slower in calling non-family ties immediately after the earthquake; these tendencies were stronger at higher earthquake intensity. In the weeks after the event, individuals in more embedded family structures had more reciprocal communications and contacted more social ties in their broader social network. Overall, families that are structurally more embedded displayed higher levels of intra-family coordination and mobilization of non-family social connections. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/301158 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 14.7 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 4.887 |
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dc.contributor.author | Jia, SJ | - |
dc.contributor.author | Li, Y | - |
dc.contributor.author | Lu, X | - |
dc.contributor.author | Ning, Y | - |
dc.contributor.author | Christakis, NA | - |
dc.contributor.author | Jia, J | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-07-27T08:06:59Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2021-07-27T08:06:59Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Nature Communications, 2021, v. 12 n. 1, p. article no. 4286 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 2041-1723 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/301158 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Kinship networks are a fundamental social unit in human societies, and like social networks in general, provide social support in times of need. Here, we investigate the impact of sudden environmental shock, the Ms 7.0 2013 Ya’an earthquake, on the mobile communications patterns of local families, which we operationalize using anonymized individual-level mobile telecommunications metadata from family plan subscribers of a major carrier (N = 35,565 people). We demonstrate that families’ communications dynamics after the earthquake depended on their triadic embeddedness structure, a structural metric we propose that reflects the number of dyads in a family triad that share social ties. We find that individuals in more embedded family structures were more likely to first call other family plan members and slower in calling non-family ties immediately after the earthquake; these tendencies were stronger at higher earthquake intensity. In the weeks after the event, individuals in more embedded family structures had more reciprocal communications and contacted more social ties in their broader social network. Overall, families that are structurally more embedded displayed higher levels of intra-family coordination and mobilization of non-family social connections. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Nature Research: Fully open access journals. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.nature.com/ncomms/index.html | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Nature Communications | - |
dc.rights | Nature Communications. Copyright © Nature Research: Fully open access journals. | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.title | Triadic Embeddedness Structure in Family Networks Predicts Mobile Communication Response to a Sudden Natural Disaster | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Jia, SJ: jjia@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Jia, SJ=rp01801 | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1038/s41467-021-24606-7 | - |
dc.identifier.pmid | 34257305 | - |
dc.identifier.pmcid | PMC8277904 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85110794943 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 323643 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 12 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | article no. 4286 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | article no. 4286 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000675656600020 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |