Who talks? The social psychology of illness support groups.
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...For instance, Davison et al. (2000) found that the use of self-help was the highest among individuals with AIDS, alcoholism, and cancer, whereas it was the lowest for those with serious but less stigmatizing illnesses such as heart disease....
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...Davison and colleagues report prostate cancer patients are one of the illness groups most likely to seek out support, but also a group characterized as tending to suppress expression of negative emotion [26]....
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...To be among others who are to a certain extent alike may reduce feelings of being an outlier or cut off from society (Braithwaite et al., 1999; Davison et al., 2000; Frable, 1993; McKenna & Bargh, 1998)....
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...In a similar vein, Yalom (1995) has asserted that self-help groups offer a unique venue for growth, social experimentation, and change....
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