Relationship between social interaction and mental health

Author

Ono, Eisuke ; Nozawa, Takayuki ; Ogata, Taiki ; Motohashi, Masanari ; Higo, Naoki ; Kobayashi, Tetsuro ; Ishikawa, Kunihiro ; Ara, Koji ; Yano, Kazuo ; Miyake, Yoshihiro

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Intell. & Syst. Sci., Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Yokohama, Japan

fYear

2011

fDate

20-22 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

246

Lastpage

249

Abstract

In order to explore the relationship between human social interaction and mental health, we investigated the correlations between the amount of face-to-face contact time and quantified mental health. Social interaction data were obtained by wearable sensing system for two organizations in Japan. In this study, we regarded face-to-face contact between individuals as social interaction. The mental health of individuals was measured by psychological questionnaire. We found that the social behavioral property of individuals tended to reflect quantified stress in both organizations. The results suggest the possibility that people who experience large amounts of social interaction tend to have less stress.

Keywords

behavioural sciences computing; psychology; face-to-face contact time; human social interaction; psychological questionnaire; quantified mental health; social behavioral property; stress; wearable sensing system; Atmospheric measurements; Correlation; Humans; Organizations; Particle measurements; Psychology; Stress;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Integration (SII), 2011 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Kyoto

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1523-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SII.2011.6147454

Filename

6147454