Eddie M. Clark

TL;DR: This article examined whether social support mediated the relationship between personality and health, and found that social support was associated with higher health and higher personality in a study with a large number of participants, but less is known about why such relationships exist.

TL;DR: The effects of loneliness and social isolation on dependency on a romantic partner in a sample of college students was examined and individuals who reported higher social isolation reported higher levels of dependency.

TL;DR: Investigation of whether social support mediated the relationship between personality traits and health among African Americans over a 5-year period suggested that relationships between the T1 personality trait and T3 physical functioning were not mediated by T2 social support.

TL;DR: This paper examined the role of social and religious resources in the association between marital status and depressive symptoms among a national probability sample of predominantly midlife and older adults, and found that they were positively associated with depression.

TL;DR: Examination of associations of education—distinct from income—with established behavioral and psychosocial antecedents of health in a national sample of African Americans suggests that, for African Americans, education is generally favorably associated with an array of behavioral and psychology antecedent of physical health, partially explaining health disparities and providing a point of intervention moving forward.