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Social Networks in Later Life

Key points:

  • Network members can provide help in times of need and day-to-day companionship, but they can also behave in ways that are inconsiderate, hurtful, or intrusive. 
  •  This article provides an overview of  health-related effects of positive and negative aspects of social network involvement. If focuses on later life, a time when risks for declining health and for the loss or disruption of social relationships increase.
  • .Social support failures occur when social network members do not provide needed help or provide miscalibrated or grudging help.
  • Rejection or neglect occurs when network members exclude someone from social activities or ignore the person altogether.
  • Misdirected social control or undermining occurs when network members interfere with others’ health goals (for example, offering unhealthy foods to someone on a restricted diet; e.g., Henry, Rook, Stephens, & Franks, 2013) or encourage others to initiate an unsound health habit (such as smoking or drinking; e.g., Cruz, Emery, & Turkheimer, 2012).
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Evidence Linking Positive and Negative Social Exch

Evidence Linking Positive and Negative Social Exchanges to Health:

  • The effects of negative exchanges often outweigh the effects of positive exchange
  • For example, negative interaction,has been found in large prospective studies to predict allostatic load (dysregulation across multiple physiological systems that underlies many chronic diseases; Seeman, Gruenewald, Cohen, Williams, & Matthews, 2014.

Conclusion:

  • Evidence from studies focused on age differences suggests that older adults have more satisfying social relationships and experience fewer interpersonal problems than younger groups (Charles & Carstensen, 2010).
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