Health Promoting Effects of Friends and Family on Health Outcomes in Older Adults

By T. Seeman. American Journal of Health Promotion, 2000

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Health

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Loneliness in everyday life: cardiovascular activity, psychosocial context, and health behaviors. (2003, background): “Seeman, 2000 ). This is somewhat surprising in light of prior research on social connectedness and physiological functioning.”
Loneliness and Health: Potential Mechanisms (2002, background): “and mortality as well as between isolation and mortality (4).”
Gender differences in the exchange of social support with friends, neighbors, and co-workers at midlife ☆ (2002, result): “This runs contrary to research showing a positive relationship between the amount of social support and good physical health (e.g., Anderson, Deshaies and Jobin 1996; Seeman 2000).”
In the Eye of the Beholder: Individual Differences in Perceived Social Isolation Predict Regional Brain Activation to Social Stimuli (2009, neutral): “, 2000), promotes a search for social information (Gardner, Pickett, Jeffries, & Knowles, 2005) and human connection (Epley, Waytz, & Cacioppo, 2007; Baumeister & Leary, 1995), and predicts adverse health outcomes (Adam, Hawkley, Kudielka, & Cacioppo, 2006; Hawkley, Masi, Berry, & Cacioppo, 2006; Se”
Social support and oxytocin interact to suppress cortisol and subjective responses to psychosocial stress. (2003, background): “Social support is the most intensively investigated social factor in humans (Broadhead et al 1983; House et al 1988; Knox and Uvnas-Moberg 1998; MacMahon and Lip 2002; Paykel 2001; Schwarzer and Leppin 1991; Seeman 2000; Seeman and McEwen 1996; Uchino et al 1996; Veiel and Baumann 1992).”
New Look at Social Support: A Theoretical Perspective on Thriving through Relationships (2014, background): “A large body of empirical work supports this view, showing that people who are more socially integrated and who experience more supportive and rewarding relationships with others have better mental health, higher levels of subjective well-being, and lower rates of morbidity and mortality (e.g., Cohe”
Social networks, social integration, and social engagement determine cognitive decline in community-dwelling Spanish older adults. (2003, background): “R ESEARCH over the past decades has demonstrated thatsocial relations, including social networks, social integration, and social engagement, impact significantly on the mental and physical health of elderly people (Berkman & Syme, 1979; Berkman, Glass, Brissete, & Seeman, 2000; Seeman, 2000).”
Social Isolation, Loneliness and Health Among Older Adults (2012, background): “In addition, loneliness has been associated with the progression of Alzheimer’s disease (Wilson et al., 2007), depressive symptoms (Cacioppo et al., 2006), sleep issues (Cacioppo, & Hawkley, 2003) and mortality (Seeman, 2000).”
Profiles of social relations among older adults: a cross-cultural approach (2008, background): “1991 ; Ryff and Singer 2000; Seeman 2000; Sugisawa, Liang and Liu 1994).”
The Neuroendocrinology of Social Isolation (2014, background): “…to predict increased morbidity and mortality (e.g., Caspi et al. 2006, Holt-Lunstad et al. 2010, Patterson & Veenstra 2010, Penninx et al. 1997, Seeman 2000) even after adjusting for objective social isolation and health behaviors (Luo et al. 2012, Luo & Waite 2014; see also Hawkley et al.…”