Contains papers from an international symposium held at the Werner Reimers Foundation in
Bad Homburg, Germany in May 1990. They address the concern that social support …

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 …

Bei diesem Buch" Die alltäglichen Helfer” handelt es sich um eine gekürzte und
überarbeitete Fassung einer 1987 an der Fakultät für Pädagogik der Universität Bielefeld …

We tested the effect of contextual variables on the perceived supportiveness of help-
intended behaviors. These variables included relationship closeness, spontaneity of support …

Years of research have uncovered a great deal about the complexity of social support
(Sarason & Sarason, 1985; Sarason, Sarason, & Pierce, 1990; Vaux, 1988). Overall, social …

This research combined experimental and correlational methods to investigate the effects of
social support on social problem-solving effectiveness and perceived stress. During a wait …

In an effort to understand the effect of social networks on outcome for treatment of
alcoholism, a 1-year follow-up prospective study of 156 inpatients was undertaken …

The past three decades have seen tremendous advancement in our knowledge of
nonverbal communication. However, much of this work has focused on the structure of …

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 …

Investigated the effects of a 13-week preventive, psychoeducational intervention program to
improve perceived social support. Fifty-one, low-perceived support, community residents …