The thesis of this review is that the global concept of social support should be abandoned in
favor of more precise concepts that fit narrower models of stress-distress relationships …

The past two decades have witnessed an explosion in the number of studies investigating
the relationships between the occurrence of a wide variety of social stressors and both …

American Journal of Community Psychology, Vol. 12, No. 1, 1984 The Inventory of Socially
Supportive Behaviors: Dimensionality, Prediction, and Gender Differences1 Joseph P …

Bumper stickers reading" Friends can be good medicine!" were distributed by the California
Department of Mental Health in 1981 as part of a statewide health promotion initiative …

American Journal of Community Psychology, Vol. 14, No. 1, 1986 Social Support as a
Multifaceted Concept: Examination of Important Dimensions for Adjustment'Joan Fiore, 2 …

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 …

Conceptual and methodological issues in the study of social support. Conceptual and
methodological issues in the study of social support. Citation Wortman, CB, & Dunkel-Schetter, C …

Two studies were done to assess the direct and stress-buffering effects of Social Support on
psychological symptoms of college students. Three conceptually distinct measures were …

American Journal of Community Psychology, Vol. 11, No. 1, 1983 Social Support and
Disorder: Toward an Untangling of Cause and Effect'Scott M. Monroe2 University of …

The growth of research on social support has led to a comparable proliferation in the ways it
is conceptualized and operationalized. The overall purpose of the present paper was to …