Effects of social relationships on survival for women with breast cancer: A prospective study

Waxler-Morrison, Nancy; Hislop, T. Gregory; Mears, B. J.; Kan, Lisa

doi:10.1016/0277-9536(91)90178-f

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“…This relationship was shown in previous studies of patients with a variety of chronic medical illnesses (25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31); however, there has been limited information regarding the relationship between social support and survival in patients with ESRD (26,(31)(32)(33)(34). In adjusted analyses, we found that dialysis patients with higher MSP scores survived longer than those with lower perceived social support levels.…”

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Spirituality, Social Support, and Survival in Hemodialysis Patients

Spinale

Cohen

Khetpal

et al. 2008

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

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Background and objectives:No studies have evaluated the relationship among spirituality, social support, and survival in patients with ESRD. This study assessed whether spirituality was an independent predictor of survival in dialysis patients with ESRD after controlling for age, diabetes, albumin, and social support.Design, setting, participants, & measurements: A total of 166 patients who had ESRD and were treated with hemodialysis completed questionnaires on psychosocial variables, quality of life, and religious and spiritual beliefs. The religious variables were categorized into three scores on a 0 to 20 scale (low to high levels): Spirituality, religious involvement, and religion as coping. Social support was assessed using the Multidimensional Scale for Perceived Social Support. Analyses were also performed including and excluding patients with HIV infection. Religious variables were categorized on the basis of means, medians, and tertiles.Results: In analyses that used religious variables, only the responses on the spirituality scale split at the mean were associated with survival. The association of other religious variables with survival did not reach significance. Social support correlated with spirituality, religion as coping, and religious involvement measures. Only social support and age were associated with survival when controlling for diabetes, albumin concentration, HIV infection, and spirituality.Conclusions: These data suggest that the effects of spirituality may be mediated by social support. Larger, multicenter, prospective studies that use well-validated tools to measure religiosity and spirituality are needed to determine whether there is an independent association of spirituality variables with survival in patients with ESRD.

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Spirituality, Social Support, and Survival in Hemodialysis Patients

Spinale

Cohen

Khetpal

et al. 2008

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

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“…Over the past decade or so, considerable evidence has emerged that the number and quality of close friendships has a significant and direct impact on health, wellbeing and even survival (see, among a great many others, Waxler-Morrison et al 1991;Flinn and England 1995;Sayal et al 2002;Kikusui et al 2006;Kana'iaupuni et al 2005;Charuvastra and Cloitre 2008;Holt-Lunstad et al 2010;Pinquart and Duberstein 2010;Liu and Newschaffer 2011;Chou et al 2012;Tilvis et al 2012). Indeed, a similar effect has been noted in several baboon populations: the size and quality of a female's social network (especially that with other adult females) correlates with her fertility and offspring survival rates (Silk et al 2003(Silk et al , 2009(Silk et al , 2010 and with her ability to cope with stressful events (Wittig et al 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

Breaking Bread: the Functions of Social Eating

Dunbar

2017

Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology

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Communal eating, whether in feasts or everyday meals with family or friends, is a human universal, yet it has attracted surprisingly little evolutionary attention. I use data from a UK national stratified survey to test the hypothesis that eating with others provides both social and individual benefits. I show that those who eat socially more often feel happier and are more satisfied with life, are more trusting of others, are more engaged with their local communities, and have more friends they can depend on for support. Evening meals that result in respondents feeling closer to those with whom they eat involve more people, more laughter and reminiscing, as well as alcohol. A path analysis suggests that the causal direction runs from eating together to bondedness rather than the other way around. I suggest that social eating may have evolved as a mechanism for facilitating social bonding.

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“…Only recently did researchers discover that BAT is not only present in infants, but also in adult humans (Nedergaard et al, 2007). We know that relationships and social support are linked to health, and social support is even linked to recovery from (breast) cancer (Funch & Marshall, 1983;Waxler-Morrison et al, 1991). Could it be that thermoregulation is an important missing link in understanding just how relationships help us survive, even in the face of destructive forces such as cancer?…”

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People as Penguins: Thermoregulation as Part of the Human Essence

IJzerman¹,

Hogerzeil²

2017

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In this chapter we provide an overview of the domain of social thermoregulation. Our overview suggests that humans have always relied on, and still rely on, thermoregulation to navigate their social environment. In outlining social thermoregulation as a crucial feature of the human essence, we focus on the continuity of thermoregulatory mechanisms from other animals to humans. We then provide a number of different effects from the social psychological literature that helps us understand how thermoregulation is implicated in social behavior. From there on, we seek to understand our brain as a “hierarchically organized prediction machine” that helps us keep temperature at optimal levels. By then, it should be clear how thermoregulation is part of our human essence, how it changes our thoughts about others, and alters our motivations to be with others. We end by pointing to the implications of understanding thermoregulation as human essence.

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Effects of social relationships on survival for women with breast cancer: A prospective study

Cited by 227 publications

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Spirituality, Social Support, and Survival in Hemodialysis Patients

Spirituality, Social Support, and Survival in Hemodialysis Patients

Breaking Bread: the Functions of Social Eating

People as Penguins: Thermoregulation as Part of the Human Essence

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