Cluster Analysis for Abstemious Characterization Based on Psycho-Social Information

Pablo Torres-Carrión, Ruth Reátegui, Byron Bustamante, Jorge Gordón, María José Boada, Pablo Ruisoto

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Resumen

The consumption of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs are a health and social problems worldwide. According to several studies, abstemious people are a minority population among university students. The objective of this research is to identify clusters of abstemious students and their psycho-socials patterns. Based on information obtained through five psychological questionnaires (Patient health questionnaire PHQ-9, avoidance and action questionnaire AAQ 7, loneliness scale UCLA-R, the satisfaction with life scale SLQ, the Barratt impulsiveness scale BISS-1, and perceived stress scale PSS-10) a cluster analysis was conduct using Sparse K-means algorithm. The sample comprised 510 abstemious college students from three Ecuadorian universities. Two clusters were obtained: satisfaction with life, loneliness, and avoidance and action are the most representative variables contributing to the cluster distribution.

Idioma originalInglés
Título de la publicación alojadaApplied Technologies - 1st International Conference, ICAT 2019, Proceedings
EditoresMiguel Botto-Tobar, Marcelo Zambrano Vizuete, Pablo Torres-Carrión, Sergio Montes León, Guillermo Pizarro Vásquez, Benjamin Durakovic
EditorialSpringer
Páginas184-193
Número de páginas10
ISBN (versión impresa)9783030425197
DOI
EstadoPublicada - 1 ene. 2020
Evento1st International Conference on Applied Technologies, ICAT 2019 - Quito, Ecuador
Duración: 3 dic. 20195 dic. 2019

Serie de la publicación

NombreCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volumen1194 CCIS
ISSN (versión impresa)1865-0929
ISSN (versión digital)1865-0937

Conferencia

Conferencia1st International Conference on Applied Technologies, ICAT 2019
País/TerritorioEcuador
CiudadQuito
Período3/12/195/12/19

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