https://sarajweston.com/tags/social-support/Recent content in Social Support on Sara WestonHugoen-usFri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://sarajweston.com/publication/weston-building-2021/Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://sarajweston.com/publication/weston-building-2021/In older adults from the Health and Retirement Study, sense of purpose rose and fell together with perceived support and strain from spouses, children, family, and friends. Social contact alone did not account for the pattern.https://sarajweston.com/publication/hill-co-development-2018/Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://sarajweston.com/publication/hill-co-development-2018/Using data from more than 20,000 older adults in the Health and Retirement Study, we examined how perceived support from children, family, friends, and spouses goes along with Big Five personality traits and with changes in those traits over time.https://sarajweston.com/publication/hill-connecting-2014/Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://sarajweston.com/publication/hill-connecting-2014/We asked whether the social environment predicts which health conditions people develop over the next four years. More positive and less negative support was associated with lower risk for most conditions, but no social measure worked for all of them.