Frontier mental health research: psychedelics & drug studies

Each month our editorial team sifts through hundreds of papers and curates notable findings—for practitioners and informed readers who want to stay current with the evidence. Subscribe to the monthly Research Digest for expert analysis and concise summaries of key papers.

1 paper

Social relationship dimensions and network links to loneliness and depression in midlife and older adulthood

Chaerim Park, Huiyoung Shin

This study used network analysis to examine many parts of social life—friend and spouse ties, contact frequency, social engagement, support and strain, and relationship quality—in 502 South Korean adults aged 40–69 (mean 54.4; 49.4% male). Loneliness was most strongly connected to friend network size and the quality of friendships and…

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