Intimate partner violence and lower relationship quality are associated with faster biological aging.

ABSTRACT: The characteristics of people's relationships have relevance to health-high quality romantic relationships are associated with improved health whereas intimate partner violence is associated with poorer health. Recently, increased attention has been focused on the biological processes underpinning these associations. A geroscience approach-examining whether close relationship characteristics are associated with biological aging-would complement previous research focused on individual disease pathways. This study used participants from the Dunedin Study (N = 974) to investigate relationship characteristics and biological aging across almost 20 years, from age 26 to 45. Being involved in romantic relationships was associated with slower biological aging, β = -0.12, p < .001. Th

SUBMITTER: Bourassa KJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7712579 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature