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Social Relationships and Health Behavior Across the Life Course

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Umberson, Debra, Crosnoe, Robert, Reczek, Corinne·2010·Annual Review of Sociology

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Sociological theory and research point to the importance of social relationships in affecting health behavior. This work tends to focus on specific stages of the life course, with a division between research on childhood/adolescent and adult populations. Yet recent advances demonstrate that early life course experiences shape health outcomes well into adulthood. We synthesize disparate bodies of research on social ties and health behavior throughout the life course, with attention to explaining how various social ties influence health behaviors at different life stages and how these processes accumulate and reverberate throughout the life course.

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Comparative Study on Residents' Health-Promoting Lifestyle and Life Satisfaction in Wuhan Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Who Does Cohesion Benefit? Race, Gender, and Peer Networks Associated with Adolescent Depressive Symptoms
Copeland, M., & Kamis, C. (2022) · Journal of Youth and Adolescence · doi:10.1007/s10964-022-01631-3 · Cited by 11
“Peer networks are an important developmental resource for adolescent health (Umberson et al., 2010).”
Background
A longitudinal analysis of health inequalities from adolescence to young adulthood and their underlying causes
Reuter, M., Diehl, K., Richter, M., Sundmacher, L., Hövener, C., Spallek, J., & Dragano, N. (2024) · Advances in Life Course Research · doi:10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100593 · Cited by 12
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Social relationships and their association with the functional capacity of older Chilean adults: longitudinal evidence
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Exploring the Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms Associated With Bullying Victimization: The Intersection of Gender and Family Support
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“Bullying victimization throughout childhood is detrimental because social ‐ psychological disruptions during this formative period impede the physical and mental development of children in the long term (Umberson, Crosnoe, and Reczek 2010).”
How does Urban-to-Urban Migration of Youth Affect the Health of Left-Behind Parents? Evidence from China
Zhao, J., & Shangguan, Y. (2024) · Journal of Family and Economic Issues · doi:10.1007/s10834-024-10010-y · Cited by 9
“Studies analyzing the impact of children working away from home on left-behind parents in developed countries have found that, despite enjoying stable social security, these parents still experience mental effects due to their children’s emotional estrangement (Umberson et al., 2010).”
Exploring the socio-ecological factors of healthcare-seeking behaviour among patients/people from Rural Unqualified Health Providers in the rural settings in West Bengal, India
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“1 Social scientists have offered a variety of competing explanations for what is often characterized as an epidemic of loneliness (Umberson et. al, 2010; Bianchi & Vohs, 2016).”
Gender affirming medical care access: The role of healthcare stereotype threat and social support in a national probability sample of transgender adults
Smith‐Johnson, M., & Alexander, K. (2025) · Social Science & Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118014 · Cited by 9
Health Behavior Profiles of Korean Baby Boomers
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Incarceration exposure and electronic cigarette use during pregnancy: Findings from the pregnancy risk assessment monitoring system, 2016–2018
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Associations between social loneliness trajectories and chronotype among adolescents
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“These connections are aligned with the theoretical framework of social ties and health [10], which emphasizes the benefit of social loneliness reduction and social support elevation on adolescent health.”
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“In buffering experiences of stress, social relationships can lessen the activation of the stress response and other physiological responses that can adversely shape health outcomes (McEwen and McEwen 2017; Thoits 1995, 2011; Umberson, Crosnoe, and Reczek 2010).”
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Advance Care Planning: A Story of Trust Within the Family
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“…expect that persons with high-quality relationships will be more motivated to engage in ADs because their close relatives encourage them to do so (Umberson et al., 2010) and because they know that it may help to protect their loved ones from dif ﬁ cult decisions regarding EOL care as a potential…”
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Moving Towards a Better Understanding of Socioeconomic Inequalities in Preventive Health Care Use: A Life Course Perspective
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“Der Begriff des social support wird seit den 1970er Jahren insbesondere im USamerikanischen Raum diskutiert (Umberson et al. 2010).”
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How Do Emotional Closeness and Support From Parents Relate to Israeli and German Students’ Life Satisfaction?
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Depressive symptoms are related to boredom proneness in patients receiving hospital care, regardless of alcohol status, lifestyle, or social support
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“This is all the more concerning that social support and physical activity (PA) positively affects health status through diverse mechanisms that have been extensively documented (Mowbray, 2014; Umberson et al., 2010).”
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“Life Starts for Me Again.” The Social Impact of Psychology on Programs for Homeless People: Solidarity Networks for the Effectiveness of Interventions
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Health and marital status of older Chinese couples and implications for intergenerational co-residence
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“…making monetary or in-kind transfers, and although co-residence might create or exacerbate certain tensions (e.g. related to loss of privacy or social control) (Umberson et al., 2010), the sharing of living space can enhance intergenerational solidarity across each of the dimensions outlined above.”
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The Complexity of Sport-as-Leisure in Later Life
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Association between social network structure and physical activity in middle-aged Korean adults
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Social support, relationships, and physical activity
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“, how many people in your social network and how often you interact with them) and (b) the functional aspects (i.e., the content of those interactions in terms of social support provided; Umberson et al., 2010).”
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Exploring factors contributing to care-seekers’ level of discomfort discussing a transgender identity in a health care setting
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“Although research with younger couples—who may have different sleep (Grandner, 2012; Moraes et al., 2014) and support (Umberson et al., 2010) experiences—is needed before drawing definitive conclusions, it nonetheless appears that impaired sleep may hinder provided and perceived partner support.”
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Amenable mortality by household income and living arrangements: a linked register-based study of Finnish men and women in 2000–2007
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“…of gender and family roles on the likelihood of online health information searching in Italy, and prove the utility of studying online health information-seeking behaviors in the framework of family health research (Bird & Rieker, 2008; Courtenay, 2000; Grochowski, 2014; Umberson et al., 2010).”
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Authors: Umberson, D., Crosnoe, R., & Reczek, C.
Affiliations: The University of Texas at Austin (US)
ORCID: Umberson, Debra
Crosnoe, Robert
Reczek, Corinne
Venue: Annual Review of Sociology
Publisher: Annual Reviews
Published: 2010-06-01
Volume: 36
Issue: 1
Pages: 139-157
ISSN: 0360-0572 (ISSN-L)
1545-2115
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-soc-070308-120011
PMC: PMC3171805
OpenAlex: W2141249644
Cited by: 1,226
References: 149
Citations by year: 2026: 66 · 2025: 101 · 2024: 105 · 2023: 99 · 2022: 103 · 2021: 120 · 2020: 101 · 2019: 85 · 2018: 91 · 2017: 79 · 2016: 72 · 2015: 67 · 2014: 49 · 2013: 50 · 2012: 28
FWCI: 4.83
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Locations: Annual Review of Sociology (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders: National Institute on Aging (R01AG026613)
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R03HD078754, R24HD042849, R01HD055359)
Topics: Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
Social Sciences › Demography › Family Dynamics and Relationships
Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
Keywords: interpersonal relationships, health behavior, life course, social ties, childhood and adolescence, adulthood, early life experience, health outcomes, social determinants of health

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