The Swiss StudentLife Study: Investigating the emergence of an undergraduate community through dynamic, multidimensional social network data

Vorös, Andràs; Boda, Zsófia; Elmer, Timon; Hoffman, Marion; Mepham, Kieran; Raabe, Isabel J

doi:10.1016/j.socnet.2020.11.006

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Vorös, A., Boda, Z., Elmer, T., Hoffman, M., Mepham, K., & Raabe, I. J. (2021). The Swiss StudentLife Study: Investigating the emergence of an undergraduate community through dynamic, multidimensional social network data. Social Networks, 65, 71–84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2020.11.006

Abstract

The Swiss StudentLife Study (SSL Study) is a longitudinal social network data collection conducted in three undergraduate student cohorts (N1 = 226, N2 = 261, N3 = 660) in 2016−2019. The main goal of the study was to understand the emergence of informal student communities and their effects on different individual outcomes, such as well-being, motivation, and academic success. To this end, multiple dimensions of social ties were assessed, combining computer-based surveys, social sensors, social media data, and field experiments. The d