Recent social support theory predicts that people derive initial social support judgments
about others from global qualities, such as attitudes, values, and personality. This article …

Social support and other social judgments are composed of several distinct components, of
which relationship effects are an important part. With regard to support judgments …

Social support is broad term encompassing a variety of constructs, including support
perceptions (perceived support) and receipt of supportive behaviors (received support). Of …

University students with different perceptions of the social support available to them read
about social interactions in which they imagined themselves as either the potential recipient …

338 LAKEY, MOINEAU, AND DREW mas, these processes would increase the frequency of
positive cogni tion about interpersonal relationships, thereby decreasing psychologi cal …

American Journal of Community Psychology, Vol. 17, No. 4, 1989 Personal and
Environmental Antecedents of Perceived Social Support Developed at College'Brian Lakey2 …

The thesis of this review is that the global concept of social support should be abandoned in
favor of more precise concepts that fit narrower models of stress-distress relationships …

The extent to which perceived social support reflects characteristics of the environment, the
personality of the perceiver, and their interaction is unknown. This article shows how the …

How do perceptions of being supported relate to the amount of social support received?
Received and perceived support have generally been found to be only moderately related …

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 …