A basic reason was that, as adults, the frequent childhood movers had fewer, lower-quality social relationships.
While early studies focused on the dangers of reduced social engagement with age [ 21, 22], recent studies have revealed that older adults are much more active in facing changes in their social network size when they concentrate on several high-quality social relationships [ 23, 24], participate in more social activities [ 25- 28], and recompose their social network structure [ 29- 31].
The findings indicate that increased levels of negative affect may be related to the poor quality of social relationships often reported in this population.
According to the results, PI is an effective method for treating IA, specifically in mitigating Internet use and improving the quality of social relationships.
While we noted that all participants except one had been incarcerated more than once, there may be potential differences in the quality of social relationships between those incarcerated for short periods of time versus those who were incarcerated for over a year (Meyer et al. 2013), as well as between men and women.
For older adults, the factors are often health problems, changes in relationships with a spouse or adult children due to the transition to a care-giving or care-needing role, the death of a significant other, or a change in the availability or quality of social relationships with older friends because of their own health-related life changes.
We also expected to find evidence for the individual, unique effects of a strong sense of control over life outcomes, high quality of social relationships with friends and family, and frequent vigorous physical exercise on functional health.
Data on the quality of social relationships were obtained through 57 30-min all occurrences group samples spread across the data collection period, which enabled us to calculate the proportion of time each possible dyad combination spent sitting in contact or preening each other.
