Social Influences on Physical Health:

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Introduction

• Introduction to the Special Issue Social Influences on Physical Health: Patterns, Mechanisms, and Solutions
  opens in new window Jenny M. Cundiff, Matthew R. Cribbet, and Wendy C. Birmingham
• Holistic Assessments of Social Relationships and Health Support, Strain, and Health in Older Adulthood: A Latent Profile Transition Analysis
  Reout Arbel and Dikla Segel-Karpas
• Social Relationships and Cardiometabolic Risk in Low-Income Mothers Following Birth
  Heidi S. Kane, Joni A. Brown, Jackie A. Nelson, Leah Cha, Christine Dunkel Schetter, and Theodore F. Robles

Proximal Mechanisms in Daily Life

• Mood Reactivity to Daily Social Conflict in Hostile Adults: An Experimental Intervention
  Eli Rice, Colin Vize, Stephen Manuck, and Thomas Kamarck
• Lonely Days: Linking Day-to-Day Loneliness to Biological and Functional Aging
  Stephanie J. Wilson and Rachel E. Koffer
• Intersection of Age and Gender: Links Between Negative Interpersonal Interactions and Both Blood Pressure and Mood in Daily Life
  Patrick Louie Robles, Matthew J. Zawadzki, Jennifer E. Graham-Engeland, Dakota D. Witzel, Kaylee Foor, and Elizabeth Brondolo

Potential Early Life and Intergenerational Influences

• Intimate Partner Relationship Strain and General Health for Prospective Mothers and Their Child: A Target Trial Emulation Study
  opens in new window Emma M. Marshall, Christopher J. Greenwood, Stephanie R. Aarsman, Allison K. Farrell, Matthew Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, David A. Sbarra, Gery C. Karantzas, Primrose Letcher, and Craig A. Olsson
• Maternal Childhood Adversity Accelerates Epigenetic Aging of Children
  Elissa J. Hamlat, Stefanie E. Mayer, Barbara Laraia, Terrie E. Moffitt, Agus Surachman, Ethan G. Dutcher, Joshua Zhang, Ake T. Lu, Tony T. Yang, Meital Mashash, George M. Slavich, and Elissa S. Epel
• Positive Childhood Experiences and Adult Cardiovascular Health
  LillyBelle K. Deer, Deborah Han, Mackenzie Maher, Samantha R. Scott, Kenia M. Rivera, Emily M. Melnick, Nathalie Dieujuste, and Jenalee R. Doom

Examinations of Sociocultural Context

• State-Level Structural Racism and Sleep Disturbances Among Black and Latinx Adolescents: Findings From the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study*
  Youchuan Zhang, Zhenqiang Zhao, and Yijie Wang
• Social Asymmetry and Physical Health in the United States and Japan
  Anthony D. Ong, Dakota W. Cintron, Tomiko Yoneda, Emorie D. Beck, Kathryn Jackson, Jing Luo, Daniel K. Mroczek, Andrew Steptoe, and Eileen K. Graham

Helping Others and Our Physical Health

• How Is Volunteering Associated With Reduced Mortality? A Mediator-Wide Approach
  Julia S. Nakamura, Koichiro Shiba, Baoyi Shi, Rachel S. Leong, Tyler J. VanderWeele, and Eric S. Kim
• Childhood Prosocial Behavior and Body Mass Index: Longitudinal Findings in the Millennium Cohort Study
  Farah Qureshi, Krista Woodward, Laura D. Kubzansky, and Julia K. Boehm

Meta-analytic Investigation of Social Support and Cardiovascular Stress Reactivity

• Individual Differences of Perceived Social Support and Cardiovascular Reactivity:A Meta-Analysis
  Joshua Landvatter, Bert N. Uchino, and Tracey Tacana

An RCT to Reduce Negative Social Emotions in Weight Loss Treatment

• A Randomized Controlled Trial of an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-Informed Diabetes Prevention Program Reduces Body Shame and Distress549
  Megan Lipsett and Elliot Berkman

Public Policy Implications

• Social Connection or Loneliness? How We Frame the Issue May Significantly Impact Public Policy
  Julianne Holt-Lunstad

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