Interest in the beneficial effects of social support for the physical and psychological well‐
being of individuals has rapidly grown. The Inventory of Socially Supportive Behaviors is …

A rapidly expanding literature documents the effects of social support on physical and
psychological well-being. Although definitions vary, most include both tangible components …

Examines whether the psychological impact of different kinds of social supports varies
according to who provides them. Data on 82 older adults' social relationships, measured as …

Researchers have attempted to clarify the concept of social support by differentiating types
of support and relating them to types of stressors. This" specificity" model of support …

This study examined the psychometric properties of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived
Social Support (MSPSS; Zimet, Dahlem, Zimet, & Farley, 1988) with a diverse group of 154 …

The social support literature has succeeded in calling attention to the importance of social
relationships for adaptation. Yet, it has been less successful in stimulating exploration of …

Although the social support literature is growing rapidly, this field of inquiry like so many
others is marked by fuzziness, a multitude of definitions of its major variables, and a lack of …

Beginning in the early 1980s, many researchers started to conceptualize support not as a
unitary concept but rather as a mixture of several different concepts. The social support …

Definitions and concepts of social support are reviewed in an attempt to develop a
theoretical structure for future research. Fourteen techniques for measuring social support …

Abstract discusses recent research on social support/begins with a brief review of social
support research, giving attention to substantive findings and methodological …