Fig. 2From: Friendships that money can buy: financial security protects health in retirement by enabling social connectednessLongitudinal analysis: Financial security protects health, in part, because it enables social connectedness. Notes. Nā=ā404 people transitioning to retirement. These analyses include the covariates of gender, age, and education, as well as pre-retirement measures of the three focal variables. Mixed effects mediation model includes random intercepts for households. *pā<ā.001. H1: Hypothesis 1. H2: Hypothesis 2. H3: Hypothesis 3Back to article page