Summary
Project Summary Public health efforts in adolescence aimed at life course physical health promotion have to date focused almost exclusively on addressing physiological risk factors and health behaviors (e.g., weight, smoking, etc.). This proposal examines a far-reaching hypothesis with the potential to open up new venues for intervention: that social relationship qualities established in adolescence have an integral, long-term relationship to life course physical health and aging processes. The proposed study will clarify both the existence and the mechanisms by which two specific relationship
