[APSY 2242] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (62 pages long!)
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Social integration: overall level of involvement with informal social relationships (ex. Quality of relationships: positive aspects of relationships (emotional support) and strained aspects of relationships (conflict and stress). Social networks: the web of social relationships surrounding an individual, structural features like the type and strength of each social relationship. Social ties influence our health behavior because they control our health habits (smoking, drinking, or eating healthy and exercising). Religious ties will control, regulate, inhibit health behaviors. Social ties can provide a sense of responsibility for others which then in turn leads the individual to behave in ways that protect others and himself. Social ties health habits physical health and mortality. Psychosocial explanation 4 mechanisms : social support, personal control, symbolic meanings and norms, mental health. Social support: emotionally sustaining qualities of relationships benefits mental and physical. Can foster a sense of meaning and purpose in life.