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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Social support and companionship among active African American women.

30 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVE: To examine the role of physical activity (PA) companions in supporting PA participation among African American women. METHODS: Data were collected through in-depth interviews and focus groups. Fifteen physically active African American ... Read more...

Trial of family and friend support for weight loss in African American adults.

24 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Family and friend participation may provide culturally salient social support for weight loss in African American adults. METHODS: SHARE (Supporting Healthy Activity and eating Right Everyday) was a 2-year trial of a culturally specific ... Read more...

Social network types and subjective well-being in Chinese older adults.

7 Oct 2009 The study examined social network types in a sample of 1,005 older Chinese adults in Hong Kong and the networks' relations to subjective well-being. Given the nature of kinship in Chinese society, we broke down social support provision by closeness ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Friends'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Social support and companionship among active African American women. 30 Oct 2009
• The interdisciplinary approach to culturally tailored medical care: "Social networking" for decreasing risk: Comment on "The effects of a nurse case manager and a community health worker team on diabetic control, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations among urban African Americans with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a randomized controlled trial" and "Trial of family and friend support for weight loss in African American adults". 24 Oct 2009
• Trial of family and friend support for weight loss in African American adults. 24 Oct 2009
• Social network types and subjective well-being in Chinese older adults. 7 Oct 2009
• Now you see it, now you don't: age differences in affective reactivity to social tensions. 30 Aug 2009
• The "dark side" of the strength of weak ties: the diffusion of suicidal thoughts. 30 Aug 2009
• More information than you ever wanted: does Facebook bring out the green-eyed monster of jealousy? 30 Jul 2009
• A decade of stigma and discrimination in mental health: plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose (the more things change, the more they stay the same). 30 Jul 2009
• Mental illness stigma and disclosure: consequences of coming out of the closet. 30 Jul 2009
• Neural bases of autobiographical support for episodic recollection of faces. 30 Jul 2009
• Williams syndrome: a multidisciplinary approach to care. 30 Jul 2009
• Friends' knowledge of youth internalizing and externalizing adjustment: accuracy, bias, and the influences of gender, grade, positive friendship quality, and self-disclosure. 30 Jul 2009
• The role of inflexible friendship beliefs, rumination, and low self-worth in early adolescents' friendship jealousy and adjustment. 30 Jul 2009
• Boundaries of self-positivity: the effect of comparison focus in self-friend comparisons. 30 Jul 2009
• The neuronal substrates of human olfactory based kin recognition. 30 Jul 2009
• Friend or foe: subjective expected relative similarity as a determinant of cooperation. 30 Jul 2009
• Balance across contexts: importance of balanced need satisfaction across various life domains. 30 Jul 2009
• Understanding older men and their male friendships: a comparison of african american and white men. 30 Jul 2009
• Predictors of normal and successful aging among urban-dwelling elderly Brazilians. 13 Jul 2009
• Terrorism-related perceived stress, adolescent depression, and social support from friends. 11 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Friends'

Definition: Persons whom one knows, likes, and trusts.

Descriptor UI: D033062

Alternative terms: Friends; Friend; Companions; Companion; Friendship; Friendships; Acquaintances;

Related Mesh Headings: Interpersonal Relations;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethnology; psychology;

Tree Number: M01.252;

History Note: 2003; use INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS 1980-2002

Technical Notes: for Society of Friends, or Quakers, use PROTESTANTISM