Individual differences of perceived social support and cardiovascular reactivity: A meta-analysis.

IF 3.2 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY

Health Psychology Pub Date : 2025-05-01 DOI:10.1037/hea0001425

Joshua Landvatter, Bert N Uchino, Tracey Tacana

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Abstract

Objective: The primary aim of this review was to investigate meta-analytic connections between individual differences in perceived social support and measures of cardiovascular reactivity.

Method: The following meta-analysis was completed using a commercially available software package which provided results for effect sizes, confidence intervals, tests of variability regarding effect sizes, and moderation analyses. These analyses were based on a random effects model enabling inferences to be made on studies in this area more generally.

Results: Individual differences in perceived social support were not significantly related to systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, or heart rate reactivity. Furthermore, the moderators of gender and stressor intensity were also seen to be insignificant.

Conclusion: Results of this meta-analysis suggest that cardiovascular reactivity might not be a mechanism linking individual differences in perceived support to physical health. It may be that perceived social support has stronger ties to cardiovascular function and health via chronic inflammatory pathways rather than pathways associated with acute stress reactivity. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

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感知社会支持与心血管反应性的个体差异：荟萃分析。

目的：本综述的主要目的是研究感知社会支持的个体差异与心血管反应性测量之间的meta分析联系。方法：以下荟萃分析使用市售软件包完成，该软件包提供了效应大小、置信区间、效应大小变异性检验和适度分析的结果。这些分析是基于随机效应模型的，可以对这一领域的研究进行更广泛的推断。结果：感知社会支持的个体差异与收缩压、舒张压或心率反应性无显著相关。此外，性别和压力源强度的调节因子也不显著。结论：本荟萃分析的结果表明，心血管反应性可能不是将感知支持与身体健康的个体差异联系起来的机制。这可能是通过慢性炎症途径而不是与急性应激反应相关的途径，感知到的社会支持与心血管功能和健康有更强的联系。（PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA，版权所有）。

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Health Psychology 医学-心理学

CiteScore

4.90

自引率

2.40%

发文量

170

审稿时长

4-8 weeks

期刊介绍： Health Psychology publishes articles on psychological, biobehavioral, social, and environmental factors in physical health and medical illness, and other issues in health psychology.