Social relations, health behaviors, and health outcomes: a survey and synthesis

• Main Authors: TAY, Louis, TAN, Kenneth, DIENER, Ed, GONZALEZ, Elizabeth
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: cancer; cardiovascular disease; health behaviors; mortality; social relations; social support; Health Psychology; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3422; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4679/viewcontent/aphw.12000.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The primary goal of this paper is to summarise current evidence on social relations and health, specifically how social integration and social support are related to health behaviors and health outcomes, using results from published reviews. Our analysis revealed that social relations are beneficial...