Importance Recent estimates suggest that more than 50% of all deaths worldwide are
currently attributable to inflammation-related diseases. Psychosocial interventions may …

Family ties have wide‐ranging consequences for health, for better and for worse. This
decade review uses a life course perspective to frame significant advances in research on …

Background Although a large body of research has focused on social isolation and
loneliness, few studies have examined social isolation and loneliness together. The …

Social Safety Theory hypothesizes that developing and maintaining friendly social bonds is
a fundamental organizing principle of human behavior and that threats to social safety are a …

This article reviews evidence from several lines of work to describe how marriage and
divorce can provoke health-relevant immune alterations, including ways that marital …

Background fatherhood in the perinatal period can be a time of great excitement, happiness
and joy. However, a growing body of literature indicates that fathers are at risk for elevated …

Because relationship discord and dissolution are common and costly, interventions are
needed to treat distressed couples and to prevent distress among vulnerable couples. We …

Brief everyday stressors can provoke cardiovascular, hormonal, and immune changes, and
the magnitude and duration of these responses can vary considerably. Acute responses to …

It is widely acknowledged that cancer affects not only patients but also their friends and
family members who provide informal, and typically unpaid, care. Given the dual impact that …

Building on theory suggesting that loneliness is distinct from living arrangements, social
isolation, and perceived social support, we examined change in loneliness for older people …