Loneliness, social network size, and immune response to influenza vaccination in college freshmen.

By Sarah D. Pressman, Sheldon Cohen, Gregory E. Miller, Anita L. Barkin, B. Rabin, J. Treanor. Health Psychology, 2005

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Subfields: Behavioral Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Aging and Loneliness (2007, background): “Given the importance of the HPA axis in controlling inflammatory processes and maintaining immune function, it is worth noting that lonely young adults also exhibited poorer response to a vaccine than their nonlonely counterparts did (Pressman et al., 2005).”
Why Social Relationships Are Important for Physical Health: A Systems Approach to Understanding and Modifying Risk and Protection (2018, result): “…predictors, but the poorest immune response was found among individuals who both were high in loneliness and had a small social network (i.e., were isolated) (Pressman et al. 2005); however, in another study with mortality as an outcome, no synergistic effect was found (Tanskanen & Anttila 2016).”
Loneliness, Interpersonal Distrust, and Alexithymia in University Students (2009, background): “, Ernst & Cacioppo, 1999), and poor physical health (Pressman et al., 2005).”
Perceived Social Isolation Makes Me Sad: Five Year Cross-Lagged Analyses of Loneliness and Depressive Symptomatology in the Chicago Health, Aging, and Social Relations Study (2010, background): “…et al., 2007), impaired sleep (Cacioppo, Hawkley, Berntson, et al., 2002; Pressman et al., 2005), altered immunity (Kiecolt-Glaser et al., 1984; Pressman et al., 2005), alcoholism (Akerlind & Hornquist, 1992; Bell, 1956), progression of Alzheimer’s disease (Wilson et al., 2007), obesity…”
Social Isolation, Loneliness and Health Among Older Adults (2012, background): “…isolated adults have a range of health risks, including increased systolic blood pressure (Hawkley, Thisted, R., Masi, & Cacciopo, 2010), infection (Pressman et al, 2005), impaired cognitive function (Wilson et al., 2007), depression (Cacioppo, Hawkley, & Thisted, 2010) and mortality (Brummett et…”
Why Sleep Is Important for Health: A Psychoneuroimmunology Perspective (2014, background): “Likewise, Pressman et al. (2005) found that loneliness and poor sleep efficiency were associated with poorer antibody response to influenza vaccine.”
Loneliness Predicts Increased Blood Pressure: Five-Year Cross-Lagged Analyses in Middle-Aged and Older Adults (2010, background): “…2004), underexpression of genes bearing anti-inflammatory glucocorticoid response elements (GREs), overexpression of genes bearing response elements for proinflammatory NF-#B/Rel transcription factors (Cole et al., 2007), and altered immunity (Kiecolt-Glaser et al., 1984; Pressman et al., 2005).”
Social Disconnectedness, Perceived Isolation, and Health among Older Adults (2009, unknown): “2001; Seeman 2000; Uchino, Cacioppo, and Kiecolt-Glaser 1996), as well as infection (Cohen et al. 1997; Pressman et al. 2005), depression (Heikkinen and Kauppinen 2004), and cognitive decline (Barnes et al.”
Health psychology: developing biologically plausible models linking the social world and physical health. (2009, background): “…profiles in immune cells (Cole et al. 2007), which could potentially explain why socially isolated people also show weaker antibody responses, and greater vulnerability to respiratory infection following exposure to a virus (e.g., Cohen et al. 1997, Pressman et al. 2005; see review by Cohen 2004).”
Social regulation of gene expression in human leukocytes (2007, background): “No experimental studies have analyzed the transcriptional impact of chronic social isolation in humans, but data from observational studies suggest that subjective social isolation (loneliness) is associated with increased circulating levels of the stress hormone cortisol [27-30].”
Causal beliefs, social participation, and loneliness among older adults: A longitudinal study (2009, background): “Recent research shows that loneliness may directly influence health through its negative effect on immune response (Pressman et al., 2005; Hawkley & Cacioppo, 2003), although the nature of the relationship between health and loneliness is likely reciprocal (e.g., Fees, Martin, & Poon, 1999).”
The Neuroendocrinology of Social Isolation (2014, methodology): “Using a similar methodology at four points in time across the day, Pressman et al. (2005) similarly found loneliness to be related to salivary cortisol levels, although this association reached statistical significance only for salivary cortisol levels measured an hour after awakening and at night.”
Loneliness, Health, and Mortality in Old Age: A National Longitudinal Study (2012, unknown): “…et al., 2003), increases SBP (Hawkley, Thisted et al., 2010), alters hypothalamic pituitary adrenocortical activity (Adam et al., 2006), diminishes sleep salubrity (Hawkley, Preacher et al., 2010), alters gene transcription (Cole et al., 2007, 2011), and diminishes immunity (Pressman et al., 2005).”