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Close Social Relationships
Social Support/Intimate Friend
This study extends prior research that documents strong associations between social support and having an intimate friend with improved health and well-being outcomes, exploring how having these close social connections differ across cultures and across demographic groups within those different cultures.
Researchers
Jim Ritchie-Dunham
Mexico/Spain
George Yancey
Baylor University , Sociology
Sunsuke (Shun) Managi
Kyushu University, Economics
Rebecca Bonhag
Baylor University, Sociology
Koichiro Shiba
Boston University, Epidemiology
Noah Padgett
Harvard University, Epidemiology
Byron R. Johnson
Baylor University, Institute for Studies of Religion/Sociology
Tyler VanderWeele
Harvard University, Epidemiology / Biostatistics
Caroline Bartel
University of Texas at Austin
David Dinwoodie
The University of New Mexico
The Question:
What demographic characteristics and childhood circumstances influence whether an individual has an intimate friend or the social support of relatives and friends when in trouble?