Published in Sociological Forum, 2024
We investigate the impact of ego-alter dissimilarity on the stability of friendships, confidant, and study and sport relations, while acknowledging multiplexity – the phenomenon where the same alter serves multiple roles.
Published in Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2024
Who do we choose to start and keep exercising with? We tackled this question by combining ego-network data with discrete choice experiments.
Published in Social Networks, 2023
We used Strava’s big data to investigate influence dynamics among athletes in online social networks!
Published in Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2022
First-time participants in the Dutch “Seven Hills Run” demonstrate significantly greater success when they run together with sports partners during their event preparation!
Published in The Gerontologist, 2019
As cognitive decline progresses and the necessity for nursing home placement becomes more apparent, the involvement of persons with dementia (PWDs) in the decision-making about housing and care relocation tends to diminish …