Relationships and Physical Health

Holt-Lunstad, Julianne

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“…Over the last several decades, researchers have documented the critical interplay between close relationships and health. Close relationship partners—and the quality of relationships with partners—impact mortality and morbidity and their underlying determinants (Brown et al, 2018; Holt-Lunstad, 2018; Leigh-Hunt et al, 2017; Robles et al, 2014; Valtorta et al, 2016). This work has primarily examined the effects of relationship functioning on biological stress-related pathways and/or psychosocial pathways that impact health, whereas the interplay between relationship functioning and health behaviors has been relatively understudied (Pietromonaco & Collins, 2017).…”

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The Dyadic Health Influence Model

Huelsnitz

Jones

Simpson

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Pers Soc Psychol Rev

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Relationship partners affect one another’s health outcomes through their health behaviors, yet how this occurs is not well understood. To fill this gap, we present the Dyadic Health Influence Model (DHIM). The DHIM identifies three routes through which a person (the agent) can impact the health beliefs and behavior of their partner (the target). An agent may (a) model health behaviors and shape the shared environment, (b) enact behaviors that promote their relationship, and/or (c) employ strategies to intentionally influence the target’s health behavior. A central premise of the DHIM is that agents act based on their beliefs about their partner’s health and their relationship. In turn, their actions have consequences not only for targets’ health behavior but also for their relationship. We review theoretical and empirical research that provides initial support for the routes and offer testable predictions at the intersection of health behavior change research and relationship science.

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The Dyadic Health Influence Model

Huelsnitz

Jones

Simpson

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Pers Soc Psychol Rev

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“…When social ties are severed and one is socially isolated from nurturing relationships with others, there is a heightened risk of physical and mental health deterioration (Cacioppo, Hawkley, & Berntson, 2003). Social connections significantly predict health for either good or bad; thus, being able to maintain social ties in the context of an outbreak and physical isolation emerges as a crucial factor in our ability to cope with the stress caused by the disease (Holt-Lunstad, 2018a, 2018b).…”

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Tending and mending: Affiliative responses to the COVID-19 pandemic by healthcare professionals in Italy.

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Fino²,

Mazzetti³

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Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

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The physical and social isolation measures associated with the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, although certainly necessary to contain the spread of the virus, represent a particularly distressing aspect that might accentuate the fears and pain associated with the disease, especially for patients, their family members, and health-care professionals. Affiliative responses to the crises are emerging as ad hoc or formally endorsed practices within COVID-19 facilities in Italy, aimed at establishing links of communication between patients and family members by using new communication technologies. Tending to the emotional needs of patients and mending the affiliative connections interrupted by the disease are good examples of interdisciplinary cohesion and affiliative responses to the COVID-19 emergency.

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Intimate Relationships across Cultures

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2019

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Relationships and Physical Health

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The Dyadic Health Influence Model

The Dyadic Health Influence Model

Tending and mending: Affiliative responses to the COVID-19 pandemic by healthcare professionals in Italy.

Intimate Relationships across Cultures

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