英文摘要 |
Social Network and Health Social skills as well as motor skills, intelligence, and communication capacity are the hallmarks of human evolution although they have been found that animals also have a certain level of social relationships. But human social behaviors are far more sophisticated and involve a complex social cognition process . According to the social brain hypothesis, the complexity of social behavior may be associated with the brain evolution of primates. Among the constructs related to social behaviors, social support has been identifi ed as the one that might be mostly related to medical science , and is associated with a wide array of health-related outcomes . Although the underlying mechanism explaining the nature of the association between social support and the central nervous system is still under investigation, it is plausible that social support may infl uence the function of the nervous system [6-9]. Alternatively, there could be mutual infl uences between biological and social factors in determining brain and behavioral processes (the principle of reciprocal determinism) . |