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Social Relationship Quality

Relationships between friends, parents and children, spouses or romantic partners, and with other family members are often considered in the appraisal of the quality of one’s relationships. The measures we use to assess social relationship quality evaluate overall levels of satisfaction and contentedness with all relationships in an individual’s life.

Researchers

Renae Wilkinson

Harvard University, Sociology

Koichiro Shiba

Boston University, Epidemiology

Cristina Gibson

Pepperdine University, Psychology/Organizational Studies

Chukwuemeka Okafor

UT Health San Antonio, Epidemiology

Ying Chen

Harvard University, Epidemiology

Noah Padgett

Harvard University, Epidemiology

Matt Bradshaw

Baylor University, Sociology

Israel

Byron R. Johnson

Baylor University, Institute for Studies of Religion/Sociology

Tyler VanderWeele

Harvard University, Epidemiology / Biostatistics

The Question:

Which sociodemographic characteristics and childhood factors are salient predictors of social relationship quality around the world, and which are unique to specific countries?