The Costs and Benefits of Social Support in Families

1991 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth B. Robertson ◽  
Glen H. Elder ◽  
Martie L. Skinner ◽  
Rand D. Conger
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Costs And Benefits

When Stigma Is Concealable: The Costs and Benefits for Health

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane M. Quinn
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Health Costs ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Supportive Environments ◽  
Hostile Environments ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Negative Health Outcomes ◽  
Stigmatized Identity

Research on the effects of concealing a stigmatized identity on health outcomes is remarkably mixed, with results showing both health costs and benefits to concealing. This chapter reviews the literature and presents a framework for conceptualizing the moderators and mediators of the concealment–health relationship. It is proposed that people who reveal their stigmatized identity within supportive environments reap health benefits, whereas those living in more hostile environments benefit by greater concealment. However, if concealment leads to greater cognitive burden, then negative health outcomes can occur. If people do disclose their stigmatized identity, the confidants they choose, the level of social support received, and the negativity of the reactions will all influence the relationship between disclosure and health outcomes. Future research is needed to clarify which variables are most important for health and to examine differences between identity types and environments.

The mental health costs and benefits of giving social support.

2007 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 370-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyndall Strazdins ◽  
Dorothy H. Broom
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Health Costs ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Mental Health Costs

scholarly journals Regulatory Effectiveness of Social Support

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine S. Zee ◽  
Niall Bolger ◽  
E. Tory Higgins
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Construct Validity ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Perceived Responsiveness ◽  
Speech Performance

Receiving social support can entail both costs and benefits for recipients. Thus, theories of effective support have proposed that support should address recipients’ needs in order to be beneficial. This paper proposes the importance of support that addresses recipients’ self-regulatory needs. We present a novel construct—Regulatory Effectiveness of Support(RES)—which posits that support that addresses recipients’ needs to understand their situation (truth) and to feel capable of managing their situation (control) will engender support benefits. We hypothesized that receiving support higher on RES would predict beneficial support outcomes. We further hypothesized that these effects would be especially pronounced for self-regulation relevant outcomes, such as better mood and increased motivation, which, in turn, can be important for successful self-regulation. We established the construct validity of RES and then investigated its effects in daily life and in laboratory support discussions. In eight studies and a meta-analysis pooling across studies, results showed that RES predicted self-regulation relevant support outcomes, and these effects of RES were stronger than the effects of perceived responsiveness, a construct that is known to enhance interpersonal relationships. Furthermore, RES was linked to self-regulatory success: Participants who received support higher on RES were more motivated to perform well on a stressful speech, which subsequently predicted better speech performance. These findings enhance knowledge of effective social support by underscoring the importance of addressing recipients’ self-regulatory needs in the support process.

Using the research on intergroup conflict in nonhuman animals to help inform patterns of human intergroup conflict

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda R. Ridley ◽  
Melanie O. Mirville
Keyword(s):  
Large Body ◽  
Nonhuman Animal ◽  
Intergroup Conflict ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Animal Groups ◽  
Interesting Article ◽  
Nonhuman Animals

Abstract There is a large body of research on conflict in nonhuman animal groups that measures the costs and benefits of intergroup conflict, and we suggest that much of this evidence is missing from De Dreu and Gross's interesting article. It is a shame this work has been missed, because it provides evidence for interesting ideas put forward in the article.

Job Stress in Speech-Language Pathologists Working in Rural, Suburban, and Urban Schools: Social Support and Frequency of Interactions

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (Fall) ◽  
pp. 132-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon W. Blood ◽  
Emily A. Thomas ◽  
Jenna Swavely Ridenour ◽  
Constance Dean Qualls
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Urban Schools ◽  
Job Stress ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists

Assess Psoriasis Patients' Social Support, Self-Esteem

2007 ◽  
Vol 38 (10) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
DAMIAN MCNAMARA
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Self Esteem

Communicating Social Support

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daena J. Goldsmith
Keyword(s):  
Social Support

Conflict Avoidance in Old Age

GeroPsych ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lia Oberhauser ◽  
Andreas B. Neubauer ◽  
Eva-Marie Kessler
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Conflict Avoidance ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Adult Lifespan ◽  
Set Up

Abstract. Conflict avoidance increases across the adult lifespan. This cross-sectional study looks at conflict avoidance as part of a mechanism to regulate belongingness needs ( Sheldon, 2011 ). We assumed that older adults perceive more threats to their belongingness when they contemplate their future, and that they preventively react with avoidance coping. We set up a model predicting conflict avoidance that included perceptions of future nonbelonging, termed anticipated loneliness, and other predictors including sociodemographics, indicators of subjective well-being and perceived social support (N = 331, aged 40–87). Anticipated loneliness predicted conflict avoidance above all other predictors and partially mediated the age-association of conflict avoidance. Results suggest that belongingness regulation accounts may deepen our understanding of conflict avoidance in the second half of life.

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