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The Role of Social Support in Bereavement
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In this paper, the authors found that an inadequate social network is associated with high distress over the course of bereavement, and intervention aimed at increasing social support can decrease the distress of spouse bereavement.Abstract:
Spousal bereavement involves a social network crisis. The individual's response is influenced by prebereavement personality factors and preexisting social network characteristics. The impact of the loss on the individual and other network members, and the presence or absence of concurrent stressors, will determine the “goodness of fit” between the support offered and the needs of the bereaved and perception of the environment as helpful or unhelpful. An inadequate social network is associated with high distress over the course of bereavement. Intervention aimed at increasing social support can decrease the distress of bereavement.read more
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Adult Romantic Attachment: Theoretical Developments, Emerging Controversies, and Unanswered Questions
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Ruminative coping with depressed mood following loss.
TL;DR: People with a more ruminative style were more depressed at 6 months, even after controlling for initial depression levels, social support, concurrent stressors, gender, and pessimism.
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Communicating Social Support
TL;DR: This paper explored the communication processes that link enactments of social support to participants' reactions and provided new explanations for when and how receiving social support will be evaluated as helpful and relationally satisfying.
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Social constraints, intrusive thoughts, and depressive symptoms among bereaved mothers.
TL;DR: There was a positive relation between T1 intrusive thoughts and depressive symptoms over time among socially constrained mothers, however, higher levels of T2 intrusive thoughts were associated with a decrease in T3 depressive symptoms among mothers with unconstrained social relationships.
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"Thanks for sharing that": Ruminators and their social support networks.
TL;DR: The authors hypothesized that people with a ruminative coping style, who tended to focus excessively on their own emotional reactions to a trauma, would seek more social support and would benefit more from social support, but would report receiving less social support.
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A Theory of Social Comparison Processes
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Toward a Theory of Social Support: Closing Conceptual Gaps
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define social support as an exchange of resources between two individuals perceived by the provider or the recipient to be intended to enhance the well-being of the recipient.
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Social support for the bereaved: Recipients' and providers' perspectives on what is helpful.
TL;DR: Quatre-vingt quatorze personnes ayant perdu soit un conjoint or un enfant dans accident de voiture quatre ou sept ans plus ont accepte de decrire les efforts de leur entourage pour les aider and distinguer ceux de ces efforts qui leur furent secourables de ceux qui ne le furet pas as discussed by the authors.