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Article: A quantitative and qualitative approach to social relationships and well-being in the United States and Japan*.
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- Journal of Comparative Family Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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It is well established that social relationships influence individuals' psychological well-being by providing love, intimacy, reassurance of worth, tangible assistance, and guidance (e.g., Rowe & Kahn, 1998; Sarason et al., 1990). Across the life span, lacking high quality relationships is associated with negative physical and psychological consequences such as anxiety, depression, loneliness, and poor health (Cohen & Syme, 1985; Duck, 1983; Rowe & Kahn, 1998). Despite this evidence that social relationships are importantly related to well-being, comparative, cross-cultural work is rare; most of the research in this field has been conducted on White, middle-class ...