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This study introduces the concept of cumulative social advantage as a hierarchical construct encompassing multiple aspects of social connection, including religious, psychosocial, familial, and emotional dimensions. Using data from the Midlife Development in the United States-II ( = 4,028) and Refresher ( = 2,586) cohorts, we assessed the dimensionality, replicability, measurement invariance, and validity of a hierarchical model. Results support measurement invariance across demographic groups and demonstrate the model's convergent and predictive validity. Cumulative social advantage was associated with lower multimorbidity (β = -.17 [-.22, -.13], < .001), reduced adiposity (β = -.12 [-.16, -.08], < .001), fewer difficulties with moderate (β = -.18 [-.22, -.14], < .001) and basic activities of daily living (β = -.20 [-.24, -.16], < .001), and a decreased hazard rate for all-cause mortality (adjusted hazard ratio = 0.67 [0.47, 0.95], < .001), with a standard deviation increase in cumulative social advantage predicting a 33% reduction in the hazard rate. The ameliorative influence of cumulative social advantage was consistent across sex, race, and education. These findings highlight the complex relationship between social connections and critical health outcomes, emphasizing the importance of considering cumulative social advantage as a potential explanation for understanding individual differences in health across the lifespan. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
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J Interpers Violence
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University of Memphis, TN, USA.
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JMIR Cancer
September 2025
Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, University of Florida, 1889 Museum Road, Suite 7000, Gainesville, FL, 32611, United States, 1 352 294-5969.
Background: Disparities in cancer burden between transgender and cisgender individuals remain an underexplored area of research.
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Child Psychiatry Hum Dev
September 2025
School of Psychology, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, VIC, 3125, Australia.
The COVID-19 pandemic presented a unique opportunity to investigate the longitudinal associations between parents' pre-pandemic mental health issues and their emotion-related parenting practices during the pandemic, as well as the impact on children's socio-emotional functioning. The present study aimed to: 1) investigate associations between pre-existing parent mental health issues (2019) with children's long-term socio-emotional functioning (2021), via changes in emotion-related parenting practices during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020); and 2) test whether COVID-19 pandemic-related environmental stressors during 2020 and 2021 exacerbated associations between emotion-related parenting practices and children's socio-emotional functioning. Data were drawn from the Child and Parent Emotion Study (CAPES).
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September 2025
Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 203 Lothrop St # 500, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA.
Purpose: Despite its importance, little is known about the patterns and predictors of Survivorship Clinic attendance in head and neck cancer (HNC). We sought to determine the cumulative incidence of Survivorship Clinic attendance stratified by demographic, clinical, and socioeconomic factors, and to identify factors independently associated with attendance.
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