ArticleAnnals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine2018
Objectively Measured Social Integration Is Associated With an Immune Risk Phenotype Following Marital Separation.
Article in Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Contact with an Ex-partner is Associated with Psychological Distress after Marital Separation.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2020Article
- DNA Methylation Across the Serotonin Transporter Gene Following Marital Separation: A Pilot Study.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2019Article
- Stress and Immunological Aging.Current opinion in behavioral sciences · 2019Article
- Marriage, divorce, and the immune system.The American psychologist · 2018Review
- "Eavesdropping on Happiness" Revisited: A Pooled, Multisample Replication of the Association Between Life Satisfaction and Observed Daily Conversation Quantity and Quality.Psychological science · 2018Article
- Threats to Belonging, Immune Function, and Eating Behavior: an Examination of Sex and Gender Differences.Current psychiatry reports · 2018Review
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Abstract
Background: Close relationships play an integral role in human development, and robust evidence links marital separation and divorce to poor health outcomes. Social integration may play a key role in this association. In many ways, the study of marital separation and divorce provides an ideal model system for a more complete understanding of the association between life stress and physical health. Purpose: The current study investigated associations among objectively measured social integration, psychological distress, and biomarkers of immune health in recently separated adults (N = 49). Methods: We collected four measures of immune functioning-interleukin-6, C-reactive protein, and antibody titers to latent cytomegalovirus and Epstein-Barr virus-that were combined to yield a viral-Immune Risk Profile. To assess how variability in social integration is associated with immunological correlates following the end of a marriage, we incorporated observational ecological momentary assessment data using a novel methodology (the Electronically Activated Recorder). Results: We found that objectively measured social behaviors are associated with concurrent viral-Immune Risk Profile scores over and above the effects of psychological distress and that psychological distress may be linked to biomarkers of immune health through social integration. Conclusions: This research expands current knowledge of biomarkers of immune health after divorce and separation and includes a new methodology for objective measures of social engagement.
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