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- Title
They Drive Me Crazy: Difficult Social Ties and Subjective Well-Being.
- Authors
Offer, Shira
- Abstract
Using egocentric network data from the University of California Social Networks Study (1,136 respondents; 11,536 alters), this study examines how difficult ties—an unexplored form of social negativity—are associated with well-being. Findings show that well-being is affected by the quality of the relationship rather than its presence in the network. Having a nondifficult partner is associated with lower loneliness compared to having no partner, but having no partner and having a difficult partner are related to similar levels of loneliness. Likewise, having difficult adult children and having no adult children are associated with reporting greater psychological distress than having nondifficult adult children. Consistent with the stress process model, the negative association of a difficult partner with well-being is buffered when that partner is otherwise supportive and when the other ties in the network are supportive. However, that association is amplified when the other ties are also difficult.
- Subjects
SUBJECTIVE well-being (Psychology); SOCIAL networks; LONELINESS; PSYCHOLOGY of adult children; SOCIAL support; PSYCHOLOGICAL distress; NEGATIVISM
- Publication
Journal of Health & Social Behavior, 2020, Vol 61, Issue 4, p418
- ISSN
0022-1465
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0022146520952767