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The role of social support and life stress events in use of mental health services.
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The more life events experienced, the more likely one is to use mental health services, chronic types of life events are more important than acute events in predicting use of mental health Services, and neither social contacts nor social resources buffer the impact of life stress events on use of services.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 1988-01-01. It has received 129 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mental health & Social support.read more
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The MOS social support survey.
TL;DR: The development and evaluation of a brief, multidimensional, self-administered, social support survey that was developed for patients in the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS), a two-year study of patients with chronic conditions is described.
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Social-psychological factors affecting help-seeking for emotional problems
TL;DR: Predictors of the attitudinal measure of orientation toward help-seeking for emotional problems have been shown to include demographic, network, and personality variables but gender and willingness to disclose remained significant predictors.
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Psychological Antecedents to Help-Seeking Behavior: A Reanalysis Using Path Modeling Structures.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reanalyzed the data from two studies using path modeling and found that self-concealment is more important in the intensification rather than relief of psychological difficulties.
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How do attitudes toward mental health treatment vary by age, gender, and ethnicity/race in young adults?
TL;DR: For instance, this paper investigated attitudes toward seeking mental health treatment in a national epidemiological sample and found that young adults reported the most negative attitudes, as compared to older adults, while African Americans reported more positive attitudes than Anglos, this effect was not observed in young adults.
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Social environment factors associated with suicide attempt among low-income African Americans: the protective role of family relationships and social support.
TL;DR: Findings indicate that social environment factors including deficits in family functioning and social support are associated strongly with suicide attempts among low-income African American men and women seeking treatment in a large, urban hospital, thus, better family functions and social supports can be considered protective factors in this population.
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The Strength of Weak Ties
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the degree of overlap of two individuals' friendship networks varies directly with the strength of their tie to one another, and the impact of this principle on diffusion of influence and information, mobility opportunity, and community organization is explored.
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Stress, social support, and the buffering hypothesis.
Sheldon Cohen,Thomas Ashby Wills +1 more
TL;DR: There is evidence consistent with both main effect and main effect models for social support, but each represents a different process through which social support may affect well-being.
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The social readjustment rating scale
Thomas H. Holmes,Richard H. Rahe +1 more
TL;DR: This report defines a method which achieves etiologic significance as a necessary but not sufficient cause of illness and accounts in part for the time of onset of disease and provides a quantitative basis for new epidemiological studies of diseases.
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The stress process.
TL;DR: This study takes involuntary job disruptions as illustrating life events and shows how they adversely affect enduring role strains, economic strains in particular, which erode positive concepts of self, such as self-esteem and mastery.
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Conceptual, methodological, and theoretical problems in studying social support as a buffer against life stress.
TL;DR: Empirical work on the buffering hypothesis is reviewed, alternate conceptualizations and operationalizations of support are outlined, a refined hypothesis and model for analysis are presented, and three theoretical approaches that may be used to explain the interrelationships between support, events, and disturbance are suggested.