Social support research proliferated across multiple disciplines for more than a half century.
This growth, as well as disciplinary differences, resulted in mixed views, conceptualizations …

Social support is important to achieve beneficial changes in risk factors for disease, such as
overweight and obesity. This paper presents the theoretical and practical framework for …

Perceived support is consistently linked to good mental health, which is typically explained
as resulting from objectively supportive actions that buffer stress. Yet this explanation has …

The intent of this chapter is to provide researchers with the background to make informed
decisions when selecting measures of social support. Our premise is that these decisions …

This study examined the roles of enacted support and generic relationship satisfaction in
accounting for perceived support's relation to low emotional distress in a sample of mothers …

We hope that you were able to answer" yes" to this question from Procidano and Heller's
(1983) perceived social support scale, because" yes" answers across a number of similar …

The authors investigated the longitudinal relations between family members' Big Five
personality factors and perceived support. Members of 285 two-parent families with 2 …

Longitudinal data were collected from a santple of 9.5 college freshman to irlvestigate the
degree to which personal beliefs and social supports moderate the corttributiorr of college …

In a recent article, Dreher (1997) called for the widespread implementation of psychosocial
group interventions for people with cancer, suggesting that the benefits that have been …

In the context of existing theory and research, strategies and processes that may contribute
to resilience and coping among lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals in the face of …