Social support in a changing Europe: an analysis of three post‐communist nations

Nizharadze, George; Luu, Lan Anh Nguyen; Kósa, Éva; Emelyanova, Tatiana

doi:10.1002/ejsp.49

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“…This scale has been shown to have high internal reliability in a wide range of cultures (e.g. Goodwin, Nizharadze, Nguyen Luu, & Emelyanova, 2001) and has been widely used in studies of ethnicity and culture (Vaux, 1985). Overall reliability indices are typically around .90 for the full scale and from .70 to .80 for its subscales (Wills & Shinar, 2000).…”

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Social support and its consequences: ‘Positive’ and ‘deficiency’ values and their implications for support and self‐esteem

Goodwin

Costa

Adonu

2004

British J Social Psychol

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Recent research on social support has suggested that there may be only a weak correlation between perceived and received (enacted) support, with the former best seen as a stable, personality-like trait. This study investigates the relationship between individual values, self-esteem and perceived and received support, with samples taken from four nations (the UK, Portugal, Ghana and Mozambique). Respondents completed Schwartz's Portrait Values Questionnaire (Schwartz, Melech, Lehmann, Burgess, & Harris, 2001) and measures of self-esteem and perceived and received support. The values explained more than twice the variance for perceived compared with received support, with those scoring high on stimulation, hedonism and benevolence, and low on tradition, conformity and security, reporting greater perceived support. In path analyses, values significantly predicted perceived support and perceived support predicted self-esteem, but there was no direct relationship between values and self-esteem. These findings are discussed in the light of current debates on the role of values in the promotion of prosocial behaviour.

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Social support and its consequences: ‘Positive’ and ‘deficiency’ values and their implications for support and self‐esteem

Goodwin

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Adonu

2004

British J Social Psychol

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“…It is well known that values provide a lens through which people perceive and interpret social reality, and that people who endorse certain values are likely to see the world in a specific way. For instance, Goodwin, Nizharadze, Luu, Kosa, and Emelyanova (2001) found that values predicted people's perceived availability of social support in three post-Communist nations. Reciprocally, cognitions also influence the goals that people pursue.…”

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Social axioms and values: a cross‐cultural examination

Leung

Huang

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Eur J Pers

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The relationships between social axioms, general beliefs that people hold about the social world, and values, defined as desirable goals for life, were examined in five cultural groups. Results show that the correlations between social axioms and Schwartz's (1992) values are generally low, suggesting that they represent two distinct types of construct. Based on a structural equation modelling approach, results further show that generally speaking, the five axiom dimensions are related to the value types in a meaningful and interpretable manner, and that these relationships are generally similar across the five cultural groups. Implications of these results and directions for future research are discussed. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…2 Goodwin et al (2001), Lokshin and Yemtsov (2001), Lokshin et al (2000), Lonkila (1999Lonkila ( , 1997, Dershem andGzirishvili (1998), andSik (1995) discuss this argument applied to Russia,Georgia,and Hungary. 3 See for example Bongaarts and Watkins (1996) or Kohler et al (2001) for elaborating the relevance of diffusion processes and communication networks for the increasing use of contraceptives in developing countries.…”

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Social Capital Related to Fertility: Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Evidence from Bulgaria

Bühler

Philipov²

2007

Yearbook Population Research

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Interpersonal relationships of support have been found to be an important factor in individual fertility intentions in Central and Eastern European countries. The foundations of this positive influence have not been well explored to date, however. We present a theoretical discussion on exchange-based social capital and argue that processes of interpersonal exchange are relevant for reproductive decisions when they provide access to resources that help to reduce the costs of having children and stabilise the economic situation of a household. Data from 2002 on the fertility intentions of 2,016 Bulgarian women support our argument. The availability of important and substantive resources has a positive impact on women's intentions to have a second or third child and their timing of having a first or second child. The embededness in kin-based exchange systems of indirect reciprocity shows similar positive effects and highlights especially the significance of parents as a source of intergenerational transfers and support.

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Social support in a changing Europe: an analysis of three post‐communist nations

Cited by 24 publications

References 45 publications

Social support and its consequences: ‘Positive’ and ‘deficiency’ values and their implications for support and self‐esteem

Social support and its consequences: ‘Positive’ and ‘deficiency’ values and their implications for support and self‐esteem

Social axioms and values: a cross‐cultural examination

Social Capital Related to Fertility: Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Evidence from Bulgaria

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