ArticleThe Gerontologist2018
Daily Social Interactions and the Biological Stress Response: Are There Age Differences in Links Between Social Interactions and Alpha-Amylase?
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- Pooled it
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- Day-to-day associations between social interaction valence and awareness of age-related change.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2026Article
- An emotional support model in aging families: linking interaction patterns to positive mental health through social activity engagement and aging attitudes.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Daily biofeedback to modulate heart rate oscillations affects structural volume in hippocampal subregions targeted by the locus coeruleus in older adults but not younger adults.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2023Article
- Effects of Linpan nature therapy on health benefits in older women with and without hypertension.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Everyday discrimination in later life: A social network approach.Social science research · 2022Article
- Covariation of psychobiological stress regulation with valence and quantity of social interactions in everyday life: disentangling intra- and interindividual sources of variation.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2021Article
- Salivary Biomarkers and Work-Related Stress in Night Shift Workers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Isometric exercise facilitates attention to salient events in women via the noradrenergic system.NeuroImage · 2020Article
- Social Integration, Daily Discrimination, and Biological Markers of Health in Mid- and Later Life: Does Self-Esteem Play an Intermediary Role?Innovation in aging · 2020Article
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Abstract
Background and Objectives: According to the strength and vulnerability integration (SAVI) model, older people are better able to avoid negative social interactions than younger people, but when they do experience negative interactions, they are equally or more emotionally and physiologically reactive than younger people. Less is known about the links between daily negative and positive social encounters and the sympathetic adrenal medullary system (a key stress pathway) and whether there are age differences in these links. This study considers whether negative and positive social interactions are associated with diurnal alpha-amylase (a measure of the sympathetic adrenal medullary system) and whether there are differences in these links by age. Research Design and Methods: Participants were from the Daily Health, Stress, and Relationship Study, which includes a random sample of 89 individuals (aged 40-95) who completed 14 days of daily diary interviews and provided saliva samples four times a day (wake, 30 min after wake, lunch, and bedtime) for four of those days that were assayed for alpha-amylase. Results: Days in which people reported more negative interactions were associated with flatter morning declines in alpha-amylase, indicating greater stress. Links between positive interactions and diurnal alpha-amylase varied by age group. Discussion and Implications: Findings are consistent with the SAVI model indicating that older adults respond differently to social stimuli than younger people.
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