Department of Chicano/Latino Studies, University of California, Irvine.
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Am Psychol. 2017 Sep;72(6):543-554. doi: 10.1037/amp0000122.
Relationships are at the center of the human social environment, and their quality and longevity are now recognized to have particular relevance for health. The goal of this article is to bring attention to the role of culture in how relationships, particularly close relationships and family relationships, influence health. To this end, 2 contexts that are characterized by 2 distinct forms of cultural collectivism (East Asian and Latino) are spotlighted to highlight the unique patterns that underlie broader cultural categories (e.g., collectivism). In addition, related research on other understudied cultures and nonethnic or nonnational forms of culture (e.g., social class, religion) is also discussed. The review centers on social support, a key pathway through which relationships shape psychological and physical health, as the psychological process that has received the most empirical attention in this area. Overall, it is clear that new and more systematic approaches are needed to generate a more comprehensive, novel, and inclusive understanding of the role of culture in relationship processes that shape health. Three recommendations are offered for researchers and professionals to generate and incorporate knowledge of culture-specific relationship processes into their understanding of health. (PsycINFO Database Record
人际关系处于人类社会环境的中心，其质量和持久性现在被认为对健康具有特殊意义。本文的目的是引起人们对文化在人际关系（特别是亲密关系和家庭关系）影响健康方面的作用的关注。为此，本文突出了两种以两种不同形式的文化集体主义（东亚和拉丁裔）为特征的背景，以突出更广泛文化类别（如集体主义）背后的独特模式。此外，还讨论了其他研究较少的文化以及非民族或非国家形式的文化（如社会阶层、宗教）的相关研究。本综述以社会支持为中心，社会支持是人际关系影响心理和身体健康的关键途径，也是该领域中最受实证关注的心理过程。总的来说，显然需要新的、更系统的方法来更全面、新颖和包容地理解文化在影响健康的关系过程中的作用。本文为研究人员和专业人士提供了三条建议，以生成和纳入对特定文化的关系过程的知识，并将其纳入对健康的理解中。
