Background: Chronically ill patients need to adapt to their impaired life condition. Social (eg
social support), material (eg income) and personal (eg mastery) resources are needed to …

Objective The nature of interpersonal relationships, whether supportive or critical, may affect
the association between health status and mental health outcomes. We examined the …

Background and aims: Global social support measures have been shown to be related to
several health outcomes. However, little is known about the effects of differing social ties and …

Background It is not well established how psychosocial factors like social support and
depression affect health-related quality of life in multimorbid and elderly patients. We …

Purpose To evaluate the relative importance of structural and functional social relationships
for quality of life (QoL) and the extent to which diagnosed chronic disease modifies these …

Objectives: Research in older persons with deteriorative health shows a decrease in well-
being. The aim of this study was to examine the role of psychological coping resources in …

Background. Deficiencies in older people's social relationships (including loneliness, social
isolation, and low social support) have been implicated as a cause of premature mortality …

Objectives To determine whether the effect of multimorbidity on time to mortality is modified
by level of social support and loneliness in a representative sample of 2113 participants …

The present study examined (a) whether a diabetes-specific measure of social support is
more highly related to diabetes outcomes than is a general measure of social support,(b) if …

Psychosocial coping resources have been found to protect against depressive symptoms in
people with and without chronic diseases. It has not been established, however, whether …