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 can have a range of positive outcomes for both employees and
organizations. Social support can lead to higher quality relationships, positive affective …

Research examining the relationship between social support and psychological well-being
has largely ignored the negative side of social interactions. However, empirical evidence …

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 …

Despite plentiful evidence of a link between social support and adaptation to stress, we still
know virtually nothing about why this connection exists. This paper is designed to help the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Although research on social support has generated findings that are key to the study of
social and personal relationships, scholars have yet to deal with a number of conceptual …