Kin is the most important source of social support and wellbeing across societies. Human kin networks vary in the presence and availability of living kin and are influenced by changes such as the ongoing demographic transition. This refers to long-term changes in fertility and survival rates in developed and high-income societies. One result of this demographic change is a narrowing of the...
As teleworking persists beyond the pandemic, it continues to reshape individuals’ daily routines and social interactions. While teleworking reduces face-to-face contact with colleagues, it eliminates commuting time and offers greater flexibility, potentially increasing engagement with family and friends. However, few studies have applied a personal network approach to understand how...
We aimed to depict, using data from the SHARE COVID-19 project carried out in 2020 and 2021, the personal interaction of elderly people in Italy, with a particular focus on tracing the changes related to the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. To do that, we first provided face-to-face and virtual network types observed by living arrangements of elderly people and waves of the SHARE Corona...
This study traces a decade of collaboration among Italian scholars across four macro sectors-two in economics and statistics and two in political and social sciences. It examines how formal collaborations, retrieved from Scopus, and informal collaborations, gathered through an ego-network questionnaire, influence academic performance. Drawing on Scopus records of all co-authored publications...
This study explores the determinants of loneliness and perceived social isolation, focusing on the roles of personal networks and social context characteristics. Perceived social isolation is an individual’s subjective feeling of disconnection, regardless of actual social interactions. Loneliness arises from a perceived gap between desired and actual social relationships, encompassing both the...
