Understanding how disease factors impact social support received by college students with chronic health conditions has implications for promoting optimal adjustment.

Relationships between disease factors and social support in college students with chronic physical illnesses

1. Friendship quality significantly correlates with wellbeing, with stimulating companionship being particularly influential.
2. Perceived emotional or instrumental support from friends is positively associated with wellbeing, and peer support predicts wellbeing for both the provider and recipient.
3. Socializing with friends, in terms of time spent together, is linked to wellbeing levels and can predict wellbeing over months or even years.
4. Friends' support of autonomy, reactions to positive experiences, and efforts to maintain the friendship are positively correlated with wellbeing.
5. The number of friends and well-integrated friendship networks contribute to adult wellbeing.
6. Several friendship variables, including maintenance of friendship, perceived mattering, personal sense of uniqueness, friendship quality, satisfaction of basic psychological needs, and subjective vitality, mediate the association between adult friendship and wellbeing.

The Association Between Adult Friendship and Wellbeing

Health Psychology research studies relating to Friendship relationships include
- Relationships between disease factors and social support in college students with chronic physical illnesses


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Health Psychology research studies relating to social groups and relationships can be divided into the following categories
-	Community
-	Family
-	Friendships
-	Marriage & Romance

Health Psychology Research Relating to Social Groups & Relationships

Health Psychology research studies relating to Community relationships include
- TBD


Health Psychology Research Relating to Community

Health Psychology research studies relating to Family relationships include
- Grief in Parents Caring for Chronically-Ill Children
- Importance of Skin-to-Skin Care
- Family Dynamics in Sleep Health and Risk for Hypertension


Health Psychology Research Relating to Family

Health Psychology Research Relating to Friendships

Health Psychology research studies relating to Marriage and/or Romance relationships include
- TBD


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