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Type of social support and specific stress: Toward a theory of optimal matching.
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The article was published on 1990-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1298 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Optimal matching & Stress management.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 relationships and health.
TL;DR: The author argues that all 3 variables that assess different aspects of social relationships are associated with health outcomes, that these variables each influence health through different mechanisms, and that associations between these variables and health are not spurious findings attributable to the authors' personalities.
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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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Mechanisms linking social ties and support to physical and mental health.
TL;DR: It is argued that there are two broad types of support, emotional sustenance and active coping assistance, and two broad categories of supporters, significant others and experientially similar others, who specialize in supplying different types ofSupport to distressed individuals.
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The Influence of the Family in the Development of Talent in Sport
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe patterns in the dynamics of families of talented athletes throughout their development in sport, including three families of elite rowers and one family of an elite tennis player.