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Psychological pathways linking social support to health outcomes: a visit with the "ghosts" of research past, present, and futureBert N Uchino
Department of Psychology and Health Psychology Program, University of Utah, USA
Soc Sci Med 74:949-57. 2012....- Social support and the reactivity hypothesis: conceptual issues in examining the efficacy of received support during acute psychological stressBert N Uchino
Department of Psychology and Health Psychology Program, University of Utah, United States
Biol Psychol 86:137-42. 2011.... - Are older adults less or more physiologically reactive? A meta-analysis of age-related differences in cardiovascular reactivity to laboratory tasksBert N Uchino
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, 380 S 1530 E, Room 502, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 0251, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 65:154-62. 2010..These data are discussed in light of existing self-regulatory models and important future research directions... - Heterogeneity in the social networks of young and older adults: prediction of mental health and cardiovascular reactivity during acute stressB N Uchino
Department of Psychology and Health Psychology Program, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 0251, USA
J Behav Med 24:361-82. 2001..Implications for the study of social relationships, physiological processes, and health outcomes are also discussed... - Age-related differences in ambulatory blood pressure during daily stress: evidence for greater blood pressure reactivity with ageBert N Uchino
University of Utah, Department of Psychology, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 0251, USA
Psychol Aging 21:231-9. 2006..The results of this study are consistent with the age-related increase in cardiovascular risk but highlight the complex links between stress and different facets of the aging process... - Social support and health: a review of physiological processes potentially underlying links to disease outcomesBert N Uchino
Department of Psychology and Health Psychology Program, University of Utah, 380 S 1530 E, Rm 502, Salt Lake City, 84112 Utah, USA
J Behav Med 29:377-87. 2006..The implications of these links, along with future research directions are discussed... - Aging and cardiovascular reactivity to stress: longitudinal evidence for changes in stress reactivityBert N Uchino
Department of Psychology and Health Psychology Program, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 0251, USA
Psychol Aging 20:134-43. 2005..The implications of these findings are discussed in light of the increased cardiovascular disease risk with age, as well as the links between aging, emotions, and physiology... - Relationship quality moderates the effect of social support given by close friends on cardiovascular reactivity in womenDarcy Uno
University of Utah and Health Psychology Program, Support and Reactivity, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Int J Behav Med 9:243-62. 2002..These data are discussed in light of the psychosocial processes underlying social support effects in women, and the importance of a more comprehensive view of how close relationships influence cardiovascular function... - Profiles of successful aging in middle-aged and older adult married couplesKelly J Ko
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Psychol Aging 22:705-18. 2007..Profiles of successful aging did discriminate on external measures of well-being. The results point to the value of a multidimensional notion of successful aging in couples across the life span... - Conflict and collaboration in middle-aged and older couples: I. Age differences in agency and communion during marital interactionTimothy W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Psychol Aging 24:259-73. 2009..During collaboration, older couples displayed a unique blend of warmth and control, suggesting a greater focus on emotional and social concerns during problem solving... - Conflict and collaboration in middle-aged and older couples: II. Cardiovascular reactivity during marital interactionTimothy W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Psychol Aging 24:274-86. 2009..g., collaboration among older couples) may also contribute to this mechanism... - Social ties and cardiovascular function: an examination of relationship positivity and negativity during stressWendy Birmingham
Health Psychology Program, Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Int J Psychophysiol 74:114-9. 2009..Results of this study suggest that the quality of one's relationships is an important moderator of cardiovascular reactivity during stress... - Provider and recipient factors that may moderate the effectiveness of received support: examining the effects of relationship quality and expectations for support on behavioral and cardiovascular reactionsMaija Reblin
College of Nursing, University of Utah, 10 South 2000 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 5880, USA
J Behav Med 33:423-31. 2010..Overall, support expectations had little influence on cardiovascular and behavioral responses. Implications for the study of received support and health are discussed along with potential mechanisms responsible for such links... - Interpersonal circumplex descriptions of psychosocial risk factors for physical illness: application to hostility, neuroticism, and marital adjustmentTimothy W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, 380 South 1530 East Room 502, Behavioral Sciences Building, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
J Pers 78:1011-36. 2010..Findings identify interpersonal processes reflecting low affiliation or high hostility as a common component of risk and indicate distinctions among risk factors along the dominance dimension... - On the importance of knowing your partner's views: attitude familiarity is associated with better interpersonal functioning and lower ambulatory blood pressure in daily lifeDavid M Sanbonmatsu
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 84112 0251, USA
Ann Behav Med 41:131-7. 2011..Relationships have been linked to significant physical health outcomes. However, little is known about the more specific processes that might be responsible for such links... - Matters of the variable heart: respiratory sinus arrhythmia response to marital interaction and associations with marital qualityTimothy W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, 380 South 1530 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 100:103-19. 2011..Women's reduced health benefit from marriage might reflect the depleting effects on self-regulatory capacity of their greater efforts to manage relationship quality... - Associations of self-reports versus spouse ratings of negative affectivity, dominance, and affiliation with coronary artery disease: where should we look and who should we ask when studying personality and health?Timothy W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Health Psychol 27:676-84. 2008..Using structural models of these personality domains, we tested associations of self-reports and spouse ratings of anxiety, depressive symptoms, anger, affiliation and dominance with coronary artery disease (CAD)... - Can hostility interfere with the health benefits of giving and receiving social support? The impact of cynical hostility on cardiovascular reactivity during social support interactions among friendsJulianne Holt-Lunstad
Department of Psychology, Brigham Young University, 1024 SWKT, Provo, UT 84602, USA
Ann Behav Med 35:319-30. 2008.... - Mental activation of supportive ties, hostility, and cardiovascular reactivity to laboratory stress in young men and womenTimothy W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Health Psychol 23:476-85. 2004..Hence, mental activation of supportive ties altered effects of laboratory stress and might be relevant to the effects of social relations on health... - Hostility, anger, and marital adjustment: concurrent and prospective associations with psychosocial vulnerabilityKelly Glazer Baron
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, 390 South 1530 East rm 502, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
J Behav Med 30:1-10. 2007..These results support the role of hostility and anger in the development of psychosocial vulnerability, but also suggest an asymmetry in the effects of wives' and husbands' trait anger and hostility on marital adjustment... - Hostile personality traits and coronary artery calcification in middle-aged and older married couples: different effects for self-reports versus spouse ratingsTimothy W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 0251, USA
Psychosom Med 69:441-8. 2007.... - Task control and cognitive abilities of self and spouse in collaboration in middle-aged and older couplesCynthia A Berg
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, 380 South 1350 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Psychol Aging 22:420-7. 2007..For women only, the fit between control and abilities was associated with better performance. The results indicate no age differences in couple expertise but point to gender as a factor in optimal collaboration... - Social relationships and physiological function: the effects of recalling social relationships on cardiovascular reactivityLindsey E Bloor
Department of Psychology and Health Psychology Program, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112, USA
Ann Behav Med 28:29-38. 2004..The mechanisms by which social relationships exert their influence on mental and physical health outcomes deserve greater attention... - Social relationships and ambulatory blood pressure: structural and qualitative predictors of cardiovascular function during everyday social interactionsJulianne Holt-Lunstad
Department of Psychology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602 5543, USA
Health Psychol 22:388-97. 2003..These data highlight the influence of both structural and qualitative aspects of relationships on ambulatory BP and possibly health... - Hostility and sex differences in the magnitude, duration, and determinants of heart rate response to forehead cold pressor: parasympathetic aspects of riskJohn M Ruiz
Department of Psychology, Washington State University, Pullman, 99164 4820, USA
Int J Psychophysiol 60:274-83. 2006..The findings broaden understanding of hostility and sex-related cardiovascular functioning and support the task as a method for evoking PNS-cardiac stimulation... - On the importance of relationship quality: the impact of ambivalence in friendships on cardiovascular functioningJulianne Holt-Lunstad
Department of Psychology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA
Ann Behav Med 33:278-90. 2007..Social relationships are reliably related to rates of morbidity and mortality. One pathway by which social relationships may influence health is via the impact of relationship quality on cardiovascular reactivity during social interactions... - Cardiovascular reactivity during positive and negative marital interactionsJill B Nealey-Moore
Department of Psychology, University of Puget Sound, 1500 N Warner St 1046, Tacoma, WA 98416, USA
J Behav Med 30:505-19. 2007..Hence, CVR could contribute to the effects of marital difficulties on CVD. Previous evidence of sex differences in this effect might reflect factors other than simple reactivity to negative interactions... - Social and emotional support and its implication for healthMaija Reblin
Department of Psychology and Health Psychology Program, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Curr Opin Psychiatry 21:201-5. 2008..Recent research findings from selected publications focusing on links between social support and physical health are summarized...
Research Grants
- Social Relationships and Cardiovascular Health: An Examination of MechanismsBERT UCHINO; Fiscal Year: 2007..Importantly, our preliminary research provides evidence for the feasibility and potential of the proposed research. ..
- Social Relationships and Cellular AgingBERT UCHINO; Fiscal Year: 2007..This project will provide preliminary evidence on the plausibility of such links, and the levels of analysis (e.g., social, biological) that could be targeted as potential entry points for interventions. ..
- Social Relationships and Cardiovascular Health: An Examination of MechanismsBERT UCHINO; Fiscal Year: 2009..Importantly, our preliminary research provides evidence for the feasibility and potential of the proposed research. ..