Receiving support as a mixed blessing: Evidence for dual effects of support on psychological outcomes.

Gleason, Marci E. J.; Iida, Masumi; Shrout, Patrick E.; Bolger, Niall

doi:10.1037/0022-3514.94.5.824

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“…This result is inconsistent with previous research showing that received support is associated with worse outcomes on the same day (e.g., Gleason et al, 2008;Maisel & Gable, 2009). However, the studies investigating daily relationships so far included received support within couples.…”

Section: Received Supportcontrasting

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Physical and emotional well-being and the balance of needed and received emotional support: Age differences in a daily diary study

Wolff

Schmiedek

Brose

et al. 2013

Social Science & Medicine

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a b s t r a c tWhether received social support matches the actual needs of the recipient is a largely overlooked aspect in research on associations of support and well-being. In particular, studies that investigate the match of needed and received support from a within-person perspective are rare. Therefore, we investigated the daily within-person relationship of well-being and the balance of needed and received social support in a German Sample of 79 younger (23e34 years) and 88 older adults (68e83 years). Health complaints and negative affect were predicted with linear effects of received and needed emotional support and quadratic effects of the balance (i.e., difference) of these two aspects using multilevel modeling of selfreports over 20 days. The predicted beneficial association between a match of needed and received support (i.e., a support balance) and well-being was observed among younger adults. Needed support was associated with more health complaints and negative affect on the same day. The match of needed and received support is important for well-being, particularly in younger adults. Future research should account for support needed in research on received support and shed more light into the processes underlying these short-term within-person relationships of social support and well-being.

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“…Second, receiving support from a partner seems beneficial in daily relationships, but only if the support is not noticed by the recipient (Bolger & Amarel, 2007;Bolger, Zuckerman, & Kessler, 2000;Gleason, Bolger, Iida, & Shrout, 2008;Maisel & Gable, 2009;Shrout, Herman, & Bolger, 2006).…”

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Physical and emotional well-being and the balance of needed and received emotional support: Age differences in a daily diary study

Wolff

Schmiedek

Brose

et al. 2013

Social Science & Medicine

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“…We cannot rule out the possibility that this association reflects a reverse causal effect. Gleason (2005) found that providing support may increase intimacy, so it is possible that it is the satisfaction that is following support events, rather than support being facilitated by satisfaction. Our data cannot resolve the direction of these same day effects.…”

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Modeling support provision in intimate relationships.

Iida¹,

Seidman²,

Shrout³

et al. 2008

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Whereas supportive interactions are usually studied from the perspective of recipients alone, the authors used a dyadic design to incorporate the perspectives of both provider and recipient. In 2 daily diary studies, the authors modeled provider reports of support provision in intimate dyads over several weeks. The 1st involved couples experiencing daily stressors (n ϭ 79); the 2nd involved couples experiencing a major professional stressor (n ϭ 196). The authors hypothesized that factors relating to (a) recipients (their requests for support, moods, and stressful events), (b) providers (their moods and stressful events), (c) the relationship (relationship emotions and history of support exchanges), and (d) the stressor (daily vs. major stressors) would each predict daily support provision. Across both studies, characteristics of providers, recipients, and their relationship emerged as key predictors. Implications for theoretical models of dyadic support processes are discussed.Keywords: support provision, dyadic relationships, emotions, multilevel models, daily diary studies Social affiliation is considered to be a basic psychological need (Ryan & Deci, 2000), and a primary way adults fulfill this need is to form an intimate relationship with another person. Once formed, intimate relationships can be potent-and often primary-sources of emotional and practical support in times of stress. Indeed, it is common in social epidemiology to use marital status as a proxy measure of social support availability (e.g., Berkman & Breslow, 1983). The equation of marital status with social support has been justified by evidence that married people live longer, recover more quickly from mental and physical illnesses, and are less likely to engage in risk-taking behavior than those who are not married (for a review, see Coombs, 1991).Despite this evidence, there are indications that merely having an intimate partner does not imply that a person will receive effective support (Coyne & Bolger, 1990). Even when the support is well-intended, it can be inappropriate, untimely, or excessive (Coyne, Wortman, & Lehman, 1988). Further, when couples confront severe or chronic stressors, the partner may become overwhelmed and essentially incapable of being supportive. For example, in a study of breast cancer patients and their significant others Bolger, Foster, Vinokur, and Ng (1996) reported that the greater the patients' distress in the month immediately following diagnosis, the less likely their husbands provided support over the subsequent 6 months. This finding underscores the fact that support provision itself can be a variable process.To date, published studies on enacted support have usually focused on the perspective of the distressed, injured, or ill persons who are the recipients of the support (e.g., Neff & Karney, 2005;Sandler & Barrera, 1984;Sarason, Sarason, & Pierce, 1990). A second characteristic of the literature is that supportive acts are treated as causes rather than consequences, whether in naturalistic studies of so...

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“…The data presented here were collected as part of a larger daily diary study designed to examine social support in romantic couples experiencing stress (see Gleason, Iida, Shrout, & Bolger, 2008, for additional details). One member of each couple was a graduating law student preparing for the state bar examination.…”

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“…Each of these between-subject variables was centered at its grand mean before being entered into the analysis. Finally, to conduct a dyadic analysis, we used the multivariate approach described by Raudenbush and Bryk (2002; see also Gleason et al, 2008) to simultaneously estimate the pattern of results for examinees and non-examinees. This process involves stacking the examinee and non-examinee data and creating a new effect-coded variable to distinguish the two members of the couple.…”

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Partner enhancement versus verification and emotional responses to daily conflict

Seidman

Burke

2014

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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This study investigated the moderating role of partner enhancement and verification on couples' emotional responses to daily conflicts. Each evening for 5 weeks, 264 couples in which one partner was under stress reported whether a conflict occurred and both positive and negative relationship feelings. Partners rated each other on relationshipcentral and relationship-peripheral traits before the diary period, allowing us to examine the consequences of derogation (partner views more negative than self-views) and enhancement (partner views more positive than self-views) relative to verification. Derogation on both relationship-central and relationship-peripheral traits was associated with more negative conflict responses. Enhancement on relationship-peripheral traits was associated with more negative conflict responses than verification. Although not as consistent a pattern, results suggest that enhancement on relationship-central traits was beneficial.

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Receiving support as a mixed blessing: Evidence for dual effects of support on psychological outcomes.

Cited by 303 publications

References 64 publications

Physical and emotional well-being and the balance of needed and received emotional support: Age differences in a daily diary study

Physical and emotional well-being and the balance of needed and received emotional support: Age differences in a daily diary study

Modeling support provision in intimate relationships.

Partner enhancement versus verification and emotional responses to daily conflict

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