Table 1.
Definitions of social support categories according to [32].
Table 2.
Definitions of other categories according to [25].
Table 3.
Definitions of additional categories as defined by the authors.
Fig 1.
Number of posts and comments during the study period.
Table 4.
The incidence of posts and comments based on main social support categories.
Table 5.
Exemplifying quotations from posts and comments.
Fig 2.
The size of each node represents the degree centrality and the darkness indicates weighted-centrality. The marked nodes A-R are well-connected and very-well-connected nodes in the network. The x and y nodes are two other active nodes who just made “comments” and “likes”.
Fig 3.
The colored nodes shows the members who were involved in publishing posts (16% of the nodes).
The size of each node represents the degree centrality. The marked nodes A-R are well-connected and very-well-connected nodes in the network. The x and y nodes are two other active nodes who just made “comments” and “likes”.
Fig 4.
The colored nodes shows the members who were involved in making comments (49% of the nodes).
The size of each node represents the degree centrality. The marked nodes A-R are well-connected and very-well-connected nodes in the network. The x and y nodes are two other active nodes who just made “comments” and “likes”.
Fig 5.
The colored nodes shows the members who were only making comments (5% of the nodes).
The size of each node represents the degree centrality. The marked nodes A-R are well-connected and very-well-connected nodes in the network. The x and y nodes are two other active nodes who just made “comments” and “likes”.
Fig 6.
The colored nodes shows the members who were only making likes (48% of the nodes).
The size of each node represents the degree centrality. The marked nodes A-R are well-connected and very-well-connected nodes in the network. The x and y nodes are two other active nodes who just made “comments” and “likes”.
Table 6.
Nodes division based on connectivity.
Fig 7.
The degree centrality distribution for the whole network.
Fig 8.
The weighted-centrality distribution for the whole network.
Table 7.
The numbers of post, comment, likes, connected nodes and directed interactions for selected nodes.
Fig 9.
The proportion of network connected to the nodes A, B and C (colored). The size of each node represents the degree centrality. The marked nodes A-R are well-connected and very-well-connected nodes in the network. The x and y nodes are two other active nodes who just made “comments” and “likes”.
Fig 10.
The network nodes and their edges excluding active nodes.
The size of each node represents the degree centrality. The x and y nodes are two other active nodes who just made “comments” and “likes”.
Fig 11.
The selected active nodes and their edges.
The size of each node represents the degree centrality and the darkness indicates weighted-centrality.
Table 8.
The content analysis of active members’ contributions regarding seeking and providing support categories, identified in the social network analysis.
Table 9.
The content analysis of active members’ contributions considering different social support categories, identified in the social network analysis.