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Social support as an individual difference variable: its stability, origins, and relational aspects
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This article is published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.The article was published on 1986-04-01. It has received 600 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social relation & Social support.read more
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Social and Psychological Resources and Adaptation
TL;DR: The study of psychosocial resources in the examination of well-being has been increasingly turned to the study of psychological resources as discussed by the authors, where resources are being studied and resource models that have been proffered are consider.
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The relationship between social support and physiological processes: a review with emphasis on underlying mechanisms and implications for health.
TL;DR: Recommendations and directions for future research include the importance of conceptualizing social support as a multidimensional construct, examination of potential mechanisms across levels of analyses, and attention to the physiological process of interest.
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Avoidance of Intimacy: An Attachment Perspective
TL;DR: In this paper, a 4-group model of characteristic attachment styles in adulthood is proposed, and two forms of adult avoidance of intimacy are differentiated: a fearful style that is characterized by a conscious desire for social contact which is inhibited by fears of its consequences, and a dismissing style characterized by defensive denial of the need or desire for greater social contact.
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Social Support and Health: A Review of Physiological Processes Potentially Underlying Links to Disease Outcomes
TL;DR: Evidence linking social support to changes in cardiovascular, neuroendocrine, and immune function and related to more positive “biological profiles” across these disease-relevant systems is examined.
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The clinical significance of loneliness: a literature review.
TL;DR: This review focuses on loneliness as a crucial marker of social relationship deficits and contends that loneliness should command clinicians' attention in its own right--not just as an adjunct to the treatment of other problems such as depression.
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The Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale: Concurrent and Discriminant Validity Evidence
TL;DR: The authors presented a revised version of the self-report UCLA Loneliness Scale, designed to counter the possible effects of response bias in the original scale, and reported concurrent validity evidence for the revised measure.
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Assessing Social Support: The Social Support Questionnaire.
TL;DR: The Social Support Questionnaire (SSQ) as mentioned in this paper is a measure of social support, and four empirical studies employing it are described, three dealing with psychometric properties, its correations with measures of personality and adjustment, and the relationship of the SSQ to positive and negative life changes, and an experimental investigation of the relationship between social support and persistence in working on a complex, frustrating task.
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Review of personality and social psychology
Ladd Wheeler,Phillip R. Shaver +1 more
TL;DR: Shaver and Shaver as mentioned in this paper proposed a model and some cross-cultural data to understand the determinants of emotion in a multicomponent process and the central role of emotion.
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Loss, sadness and depression
TL;DR: The place of loss and Mourning in psychopathology is discussed in this article, where an information processing approach to defense is proposed.Observations, concepts and controversy about the Trauma of Loss, the Place of Loss in Psychopathology, Conceptual Framework, Information Processing Approach to Defense, Plan of Work