{"title":"Relationships and Health","authors":"V. Helgeson","doi":"10.4324/9781003016014-11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003016014-11","url":null,"abstract":"How do relationships improve my health? For 75 years, Harvard University has interviewed hundreds of people to help figure out what makes us healthy and happy. The Harvard study shows that being connected to other people matters more than any other life factor (including money and power) to our health and happiness.1 Many other studies also show that relationships matter to our well-being. In fact, having strong relationships affects our body in the following ways: • Decreasing blood pressure and cholesterol2 • Keeping the heart rate low3 • Lowering levels of the stress hormone, cortisol4 • Increasing immune cells to fight infections5 • Lowering inflammation 6","PeriodicalId":396331,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Gender","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114163263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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