How a chronic environmental stressor can interfere with the buffering effects of social
support by eroding social support was analyzed in this prospective, longitudinal study. A …

Conclusion Although the cross-sectional methodology of the present study limits causal
inference, the results concerning the buffering effects of received social support for those …

Numerous studies have now found that social support acts to mitigate some of the
undesirable consequences of the stress process. Thus, whereas life events and daily …

Considerable controversy has centered on the role of social support in the stress process.
Some theorists (Cassel, 1976; Cobb, 1976; Kaplan, Cassel, & Gore, 1977) have argued that …

Although initial research in the stress field has treated stress and support as independent
entities, more recent efforts have emphasized their interrelatedness. It has been …

Previous research has yielded inconsistent results regarding the mediating effects of social
support upon psychiatric illness. Using data (N= 2029) gathered as part of a major …

Although perceiving that social support is available is often associated with psychological
benefits in times of stress, there is evidence that actually receiving support is associated with …

The effects of two dispositional variables, locus of control and help-seeking beliefs, as well
as sociodemographic variables, on the mobilization of social supports were examined in this …

• The buffering model of social support states that effective social support networks lessen
the adverse psychological consequences of stress. Among a large community sample (N …

Much of the pioneering research on the stress-buffering effects of social support tended to
view support primarily in terms of its perceived availability in the environment. Individual …