Social Support in Marriage

Emotional Support and Physiological Stress Recovery: The Role of Support Matching, Adequacy, and Invisibility

“…People who receive the type of support that matches their needs or preferences are happier in their relationships than other people (e.g. Dehle, Larsen, & Landers, 2001) and they perceive their Emotional Support 91 partners to be more validating and caring (Cutrona, Russell, & Gardner, 2005). Support matching can also help people reappraise a situation as less threatening or illuminate ways to cope with a stressor (Cutrona & Cole, 2000;Cutrona & Russell, 1990).…”

“…Inadequate support has been described as a discrepancy between the amount of desired and experienced support (Xu & Burleson, 2001) or a gap between the amount of support sought and received (Matsunaga, 2011). Thus, a focus on support adequacy (Brock & Lawrence, 2009;Dehle et al, 2001) highlights how support provisions that fall below expectations can fail to convey supportive benefits and may even have negative consequences.…”

“…Inadequate support is associated with lower relationship satisfaction (Dehle et al, 2001;Lawrence et al, 2008). High and Steuber (2014) reported that inadequate support, operationalized as the difference between the level of support desired and the level actually received, was associated with decreased perceptions of support quality among women coping with infertility.…”

Communication Channel, Sex, and the Immediate and Longitudinal Outcomes of Verbal Person-centered Support

“…Studies examining topics as diverse as social support within marriage and the reintegration of military service members following deployment document lasting effects of supportive communication (see Dehle, Larsen, & Landers, 2001;Nichols, Martindale-Adams, Graney, Zuber, & Burns, 2013). The evaluation of social support training interventions similarly emphasizes the need to study the duration of outcomes for support recipients (e.g., Kreicbergs, Lannen, Onelov, & Wolfe, 2007;Uchino, 2009;Yates, 1995).…”

Perceived Social Support and Opinions on Poverty: Is it Chronic or Transient?

“…First explanation is related to the perception of having back-covered, the overall feeling of safety that improves people's well-being (Murphy et al, 2010;Kawachi and Berkman, 2001;Dehle et al, 2001) several studies (Chang andSanna, 2001, Diener et al, 2003;Eid and Diener, 2004;Makikangas and Kinnunen, 2003;Singh, 2014) have found that optimism significantly predicts several aspects of subjective wellbeing, highlighting the circularity of the relation between well-being and optimism and influences the way they perceive the world around them: "Everything sounds rosy", they see things in an optimistic light, seem to employ more problem-focused coping strategies (Taylor and Armor, 1996) and tend to expect positive outcomes even in the face of obstacles (Scheier and Carver, 1985). This could consequently influence people's perception of poverty as a transient rather than chronic condition.…”