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Social Relationships and Health Behavior Across the Life Course
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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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Metadata
- Authors
- Umberson, D., Crosnoe, R., & Reczek, C.
- Affiliations
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
- 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
- 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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