Professor Rose Anne Kenny

But the socialising part seems to come out on top all of the time when you look at this research.

Yeah, it does.

It's very, very important.

And actually, I was doing a paper yesterday with someone on the flip side of that.

So the quality of your social relationships and the quality of social engagement is very, very important.

And the flip of that is, of course, loneliness.

But then if you look into the quality of your relationships, and this is particularly so in the work environment, if you are experiencing a hassling relationship, that accelerates biological ageing.

It's very bad for us if we measure the biology of people experiencing hasslers, but also then their health...

They get health problems earlier if it's persistent hassling.

Isn't that fascinating?

It is fascinating.

And it's really, really important, I think, for the work environment.

We were doing work in the context of how do we make the work environment better for health?

This was one of the things that came out on top.

It's intuitive.

We know that if somebody's bothering you, you get sick.

It puts you under stress.

But anyway, so there's good now biological evidence for that.

And it applies also to family members, right?

So, you know, we don't always get on with everybody in the family.