Journal
JOURNAL OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR
Volume 51, Issue -, Pages S54-S66Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0022146510383501
Keywords
relationships; social support; social integration; stress; cumulative disadvantage
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- NIA NIH HHS [R01 AG026613, R01 AG026613-02, R01 AG026613-01A1, R01AG026613, R01 AG026613-04, R01 AG026613-03] Funding Source: Medline
- NICHD NIH HHS [5 R24 HD042849, T32 HD007081, 2 T32 HD007081, R24 HD042849] Funding Source: Medline
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Social relationships-both quantity and quality-affect mental health, health behavior, physical health, and mortality risk. Sociologists have played a central role in establishing the link between social relationships and health outcomes, identifying explanations for this link, and discovering social variation (e.g., by gender and race) at the population level. Studies show that social relationships have short- and long-term effects on health, for better and for worse, and that these effects emerge in childhood and cascade throughout life to foster cumulative advantage or disadvantage in health. This article describes key research themes in the study of social relationships and health, and it highlights policy implications suggested by this research.
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