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Social Relations, Aging and Health: Competing Theories and Emerging Complexities

Description: PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Social relations are widely recognized to influence health and to impact health disparities. This study capitalizes unique data sources including: a three wave, 20 year panel study; and a linked 12 month study that includes multiple informants. The study examines: 1) how social relationships and support change with age and 2) when social relationships are most beneficial or harmful to health. Results should impact public policies designed to reduce health disparities.
Funding type: research
Funder scheme: R01
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2019-05-31
Investigator: TONI CLAUDETTE ANTONUCCI
Institution: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
Subfield: Health
Funded outputs count: 27
Funder award ID: R01AG045423
OpenAlex ID: G1715928981
Information and Communication Technology Use Among Social Ties of Varying Strength: Who Benefits and How?
2025 · Jess Francis-Levin, Nour Fakhoury, et al. · The Gerontologist · 4
I love you no matter what: Negative relationship quality and daily encounters in the parent–child tie and their implications for daily mood across the lifespan
2025 · Jane M. Stephenson, Angela Turkelson, et al. · Family Process · 3
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A Coordinated Data Analysis of Four Studies Exploring Age Differences in Social Interactions and Loneliness During a Global Pandemic
2024 · Shevaun D Neupert, Eileen K Graham, et al. · The Journals of Gerontology Series B · 2
Do friends get under the skin?: Everyday social encounters and cardiovascular functioning among Black and White adults in the United States.
2023 · Yee To Ng, Sae Hwang Han, et al. · Health Psychology · 11
Implications of Cumulative Life Event Stress for Daily Stress Exposure and Cardiovascular Reactivity Among Black and White Americans
2023 · Kira S Birditt, Angela Turkelson, et al. · The Journals of Gerontology Series B · 8
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Friendships and Emotional Well-Being in the Context of Race and Age
2023 · Yee To Ng, Karen L Fingerman, et al. · The Gerontologist · 13
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Longitudinal Associations Between Loneliness and Self-Rated Health Among Black and White Older Adults
2022 · Ketlyne Sol, Simon Brauer, et al. · The Journals of Gerontology Series B · 13
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Linked lives and convoys of social relations
2022 · Noah J. Webster, Toni. C. Antonucci, et al. · Advances in Life Course Research · 20
Development of social convoys: Trajectories of convoy structure and composition from childhood through adulthood.
2022 · Jasmine A. Manalel, Toni C. Antonucci · Developmental Psychology · 16
The Strength of Weaker Ties: An Underexplored Resource for Maintaining Emotional Well-Being in Later Life
2020 · Oliver Huxhold, Katherine L Fiori, et al. · The Journals of Gerontology Series B · 99
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Convoys of social relations: Cohort similarities and differences over 25 years.
2019 · Toni C. Antonucci, Kristine J. Ajrouch, et al. · Psychology and Aging · 50
Beyond the Nuclear Family: Children’s Social Networks and Depressive Symptomology
2019 · Jasmine A Manalel, Toni C Antonucci · Child Development · 16
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Drinking Together: Implications of Drinking Partners for Negative Marital Quality
2019 · Kira S. Birditt, Courtney A. Polenick, et al. · Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs · 12
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So Close and Yet So Irritating: Negative Relations and Implications for Well-being by Age and Closeness
2018 · Kira S Birditt, Carey W Sherman, et al. · The Journals of Gerontology Series B · 42
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Social Relations and Technology: Continuity, Context, and Change
2017 · Toni C Antonucci, Kristine J Ajrouch, et al. · Innovation in Aging · 162
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Arab American Cognitive Aging: Opportunities for Advancing Research on Alzheimer’s Disease Disparities
2017 · Kristine J Ajrouch, Laura B Zahodne, et al. · Innovation in Aging · 26
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Social Relations and Health: Comparing “Invisible” Arab Americans to Blacks and Whites
2017 · Kristine J. Ajrouch, Toni C. Antonucci · Society and Mental Health · 38
Convoys of Social Relations in Cross-National Context
2016 · Kristine J Ajrouch, Heather R Fuller, et al. · The Gerontologist · 43
Intergenerational ambivalence in adolescence and early adulthood: Implications for depressive symptoms over time.
2016 · Lauren A. Tighe, Kira S. Birditt, et al. · Developmental Psychology · 36
Teams Do It Better!
2015 · Toni C. Antonucci · Research in Human Development · 9
The complex nature of family support across the life span: Implications for psychological well-being.
2015 · Heather R. Fuller-Iglesias, Noah J. Webster, et al. · Developmental Psychology · 88
Volunteerism: Social Network Dynamics and Education
2014 · Kristine J. Ajrouch, Toni C. Antonucci, et al. · The Journals of Gerontology Series B · 27
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Rethinking Cells to Society
2014 · Toni C. Antonucci, Noah J. Webster · Research in Human Development · 11
Social Relations in Lebanon: Convoys Across the Life Course
2014 · Toni C. Antonucci, Kristine J. Ajrouch, et al. · The Gerontologist · 17
The Convoy Model: Explaining Social Relations From a Multidisciplinary Perspective
2013 · T. C. Antonucci, K. J. Ajrouch, et al. · The Gerontologist · 942
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