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Variations in Social Support Associated with Gender, Ethnicity, and Age
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In this paper, the authors compared social support across groups and found that levels of some aspects of support and the effectiveness of support components vary across these subgroups, as illustrated by one study focusing on social class.Abstract:
Much of the research conducted on social support over the last decade has focused on specific population groups. Until recently, very little work compared social support across groups. The importance of this type of research is discussed, including the potential role of social support in explaining subpopulation differences in psychological distress. Studies are reviewed that compare support and support effects across sex, ethnic, and age groups. In general, the findings suggest that levels of some aspects of support and the effectiveness of support components vary across these subgroups. Even the stress-buffering versus direct-effect functions of social support may vary across subgroups, as illustrated by one study focusing on social class. The implications of these studies and directions for future research are discussed.read more
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Gender and Helping Behavior. A Meta-Analytic Review of the Social Psychological Literature
Alice H. Eagly,Maureen Crowley +1 more
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Different Strokes from Different Folks: Community Ties and Social Support
Barry Wellman,Scot Wortley +1 more
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Toward a Theory of Social Support: Closing Conceptual Gaps
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An examination of sex differences in social support among older men and women
Toni C. Antonucci,Hiroko Akiyama +1 more
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Coping as a Communal Process
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Measures of perceived social support from friends and from family: three validation studies.
Mary E. Procidano,Kenneth Heller +1 more
TL;DR: Three studies are described in which measures of perceived social support from friends and from family were developed and validated and the PSS measures were internally consistent and appeared to measure valid constructs that were separate from each other and from network measures.
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Toward a Theory of Social Support: Closing Conceptual Gaps
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Preliminary development of a scale of social support: Studies on college students
TL;DR: The Inventory of Socially Supportive Behaviors (ISSB) as mentioned in this paper is a 40-item scale, developed in which respondents report the frequency with which they were the recipients of supportive actions.