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ArticleCurrent directions in psychological science2017

A Social Psychological Perspective on the Links between Close Relationships and Health.

Richard B Slatcher, Emre Selcuk

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Article in Current directions in psychological science, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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49citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

49 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Relationship intervention moderates the association between substance use and biological aging among Black adults.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2025
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  8. Beyond Good or Bad: The Four Evaluative Quadrants of Relationships.Personality and social psychology review : an official journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc · 2026
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  13. Relationship enhancement protects against relationship-quality-associated weathering among Black adults in romantic partner relationships.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2025
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  20. Aspects of Quality of Life: Single vs. Mated People.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Richard B SlatcherWayne State University.
Emre SelcukMiddle East Technical University.

Funding

Risky Family Environments and Childhood AsthmaR01HL114097 · NHLBI · WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY · PI SLATCHER, RICHARD B, ZILIOLI, SAMUELE · 2011 to 2019
$5.6M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL114097
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The association between the quality of people's close relationships and their physical health is well-established. But from a psychological perspective,

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cortisolhealthmarital qualitymarriagerelationships

Identifiers

PMID28367003
PMCPMC5373007

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