Social relations are important for health. Recent research found that people with high socio-economic positions (SEP) had larger networks with higher quality relationships than people with low SEP, which partly explains the well-known inequalities in health. Less is known whether also low quality or even conflicts in relations differ across gender and SEP. Based on a logistic regression of the quality of social relations on four exposure groups (high and low educated female, and high and ow educated men) was conducted in 834 women and 755 men living with a partner, and participating in the second wave of the Norwegian Life-course, Ageing and Generation (NorLAG) study. Compared to higher educated women, higher and lower educated men had two to three times more often a conflicting relation with the partner, and more often low quality relations with neighbors. Conflicting relations in the social network are patterned according to SEP and gender.
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