If you want to be healthy, build good relationships with your loved ones.
This was revealed in a medical study in New Zealand.
Research from the University of Auckland has shown that feelings about intimate relationships affect physical health and function.
Earlier research reports highlighted the relationship between social relationships, stress and blood pressure.
Our relationships with other people, including parents, spouses, siblings, and children, contribute to daily stress, and stress affects our health, the researchers said.
More than 4,000 people were included in the study and filled out questionnaires for 3 weeks while their blood pressure, pulse rate and stress were checked.
Research has found that people who think positively about their loved ones experience less stress, which in turn lowers blood pressure levels and improves physical function.
Since the Covid-19 pandemic, there have been changes in people’s interpersonal relationships and stress levels have increased, the researchers said.
It is not yet possible to definitively say that relationship-related experiences have physical effects, but there is a connection between everyday stress and interpersonal relationships, which can affect physical health, he said.
Now the researchers are planning to take the research further.
The results of this study were published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science.
