Social Supports, Social Networks, and Health Behaviors

Abstract

identify methodological problems and conceptual concerns that have not been adequately dealt with in the area of health behavior research, and draw from the larger literature on social supports and social networks in an attempt to add clarity to this area of research major goal of the chapter then is to provide a research agenda for better understanding the nature of the relationship between social ties and health behaviors (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)