1 Department of Psychological Sciences, Texas Tech University.
2 Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh.
Psychol Sci. 2018 May;29(5):814-823. doi: 10.1177/0956797617746510. Epub 2018 Mar 13.
In adults, greater social integration is associated with reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, including hypertension. Social integration earlier in life may be similarly associated with cardiovascular risk. Using a longitudinal sample of 267 Black and White men, we examined whether greater social integration with peers during childhood and adolescence, assessed by parent report, prospectively predicts lower blood pressure and body mass index two decades later in adulthood and whether these effects differ by race, given well-documented racial disparities in hypertension. Boys who were reported by their parents to be more socially integrated with peers evidenced lower blood pressure and body mass index in adulthood, and this effect was not accounted for by body mass index in childhood, childhood socioeconomic status, childhood hostility, childhood physical health, extraversion measured in adolescence, or concurrent adult self-reports of social integration. Results did not differ by race, but analyses were not powered to detect interactions of small effect size.
在成年人中，更高的社会融合度与心血管疾病风险降低有关，包括高血压。生命早期的社会融合度可能也与心血管风险有关。本研究使用了一个由 267 名黑人和白人男性组成的纵向样本，通过父母报告评估了儿童和青少年时期与同伴的更高社会融合度是否与 20 年后成年时的血压和体重指数降低有关，以及鉴于高血压方面存在有据可查的种族差异，这些影响是否因种族而异。研究结果表明，父母报告中与同伴社会融合度更高的男孩成年后血压和体重指数较低，而这一效应不能用儿童时期的体重指数、儿童时期的社会经济地位、儿童时期的敌意、儿童时期的身体健康、青春期的外向性或同期成人的社会融合自我报告来解释。结果不因种族而异，但分析结果没有检测到小效应的交互作用。
