Personal networks and associations with psychological distress among young and older adults

The aim of the study was to provide new tests of the argument that aspects of personal networks affect psychological distress and moderate the effects of negative life events, leveraging new, rich data on two different cohorts.The UCNets project measured psychological distress, life events, and various dimensions of personal networks for 673 50- to 70-year old adults and 485 21- to 30-year old adults. The project used stratified random address...