Social support research has suffered from a constricted range of methodological
approaches and poorly developed theory. A more theory-driven approach would not only be …

This chapter is intended to serve several purposes. We begin by reviewing the concept of
social support and its implications for assessment, an activity that has preoccupied social …

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 …

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 …

The work of 47 contributors from the US, Canada, and Israel, the Sourcebook gives special
attention to the complexity of the social support construct, expanding the field's theoretical …

The transformation of the concept of social support from a sociological view in which
embeddedness in social structure was central to reconceptualization of specific …

In this chapter, we discuss assessment of perceived social support with respect to three
inseparable issues: defining perceived support, selecting particular approaches to assess it …

Abstract focuses on how social support influences coping with stressful life events and their
prevention/discuss the issues of the conceptualization and assessment of the social support …

Distinctions among concepts and approaches to assessing social support are made, and
published generic and specialized measures of social support are reviewed. Depending on …

This chapter shows how basic research within the tradition of personality and social
psychology informs our understanding of the links between perceived social support and …