caa a22 4500 606180389 CHVBK 20210128100805.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11136-014-0774-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11136-014-0774-9 Longitudinal analysis of relationships between social support and general health in an Australian population cohort of young women [Elektronische Daten] [Libby Holden, Christina Lee, Richard Hockey, Robert Ware, Annette Dobson] Purpose: The influence of social support on health and quality of life has been well documented. There is less evidence on whether health status affects social support, and little is known about longitudinal relationships between social support and health in early adulthood. This study investigates these associations using both concurrent and time-lagged measures at 5 time-points over 12years during early adulthood. Methods: A population-based cohort of 9,758 young women from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health was used. Women were aged 22-27 in 2000 and 35-39 in 2012. The General Health subscale of the SF-36 and the MOS Social Support Survey 6-item Scale were used, with scores standardised to a range of 0-100. Longitudinal tobit models were used, because both social support and general health data were left skewed, with marked ceiling effects. All models were adjusted for status of the outcome of interest at the immediately previous survey. Results: With both concurrent and time-lagged measures, there was a statistically significant difference in mean general health scores across social support quintiles after adjusting for demographic and behavioural covariates: lower general health was associated with lower social support. In reverse, social support mean scores were also significantly different across general health quintiles in both concurrent and time-lagged fully adjusted models. Conclusion: Social support is significantly associated with both current and subsequent general health in early adulthood. The significance of the reverse associations indicates that the two mutually influence each other. This study highlights the importance of social support as a health-related quality of life issue. Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2014 Social support nationallicence Health nationallicence Longitudinal nationallicence Holden Libby School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia aut Lee Christina School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia aut Hockey Richard Centre for Longitudinal and Life Course Research, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Room 322, Public Health Building, Herston Rd, Herston, 4006, Brisbane, QLD, Australia aut Ware Robert Centre for Longitudinal and Life Course Research, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Room 322, Public Health Building, Herston Rd, Herston, 4006, Brisbane, QLD, Australia aut Dobson Annette Centre for Longitudinal and Life Course Research, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Room 322, Public Health Building, Herston Rd, Herston, 4006, Brisbane, QLD, Australia aut Quality of Life Research Springer International Publishing 24/2(2015-02-01), 485-492 0962-9343 24:2<485 2015 24 11136 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-014-0774-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-014-0774-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Holden Libby School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lee Christina School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hockey Richard Centre for Longitudinal and Life Course Research, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Room 322, Public Health Building, Herston Rd, Herston, 4006, Brisbane, QLD, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ware Robert Centre for Longitudinal and Life Course Research, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Room 322, Public Health Building, Herston Rd, Herston, 4006, Brisbane, QLD, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dobson Annette Centre for Longitudinal and Life Course Research, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Room 322, Public Health Building, Herston Rd, Herston, 4006, Brisbane, QLD, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Quality of Life Research Springer International Publishing 24/2(2015-02-01), 485-492 0962-9343 24:2<485 2015 24 11136