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• Title: Young Women in Coastal Newfoundland and Labrador Talk About Their Social Relationships and Health (Report)
• Author : Newfoundland and Labrador Studies
• Release Date : January 22, 2008
• Genre: Reference,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 386 KB

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A GROWING BODY OF LITERATURE suggests that supportive social relationships with family and friends have a positive effect on health (Badr, Acitelli, Duck and Carl 2001; Berkman and Breslow 1983; Hobfoll and De Vries 1995; Ryff and Singer 2000; Springer, Parcel, Baumler, and Ross 2006). Researchers have also linked strong social supports to reduced mortality rates (Repetti, Taylor, and Seeman 2002), improved self-rated health, and increased self-esteem (Ryff and Singer 2000; McNicholas 2002; Springer et al. 2006). Lohman and Jarvis have argued that social supports provide individuals with the resources they need to cope with stress, thereby preventing illnesses such as heart disease and depression (Lohman and Jarvis 2000). A number of studies have noted that women in particular rely on supportive relationships, and as a result, they experience more negative health effects in the absence of social supports than do their male counterparts (Berkman 1995; Hurdle 2001; Letvak 2002; Springer et al. 2006). This qualitative project explored how women perceived their social relationships, and how they thought about the connection between those relationships and their health and well-being. Following the World Health Organization (2004), we conceptualized "health" not simply as the absence of disease. Instead, we viewed it as a multi-dimensional concept involving the physical, social, and emotional well-being of individuals which is influenced by social, economic, and political structures and resources within society (Raphael 2003). We were not attempting to establish a link between social relationships and specific health outcomes, but, rather, to gain an understanding of how social relationships are influenced by a changing environment, and how such relationships are viewed as affecting young women's health and well-being. To establish these relationships we conducted interviews in three coastal communities--one on the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland, and two in south-eastern Labrador. Each of these communities has undergone numerous social, economic, political, industrial, and environmental changes since the closure of the cod fishery in 1992 (Ommer 2002; MacDonald, Neis and Grzetic 2005; Sinclair and Ommer 2006). We wanted to explore how young women perceive their social relationships in the context of community "restructuring," and to consider their thoughts on the implications of potentially changing social relationships for their health.

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