Social Support, Stressful Life Events, and Illness: A Model and an Empirical Test

Lin, Nan; Simeone, Ronald S.; Ensel, Walter M.; Kuo, Wen H.

doi:10.2307/2136433

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“…24 Another way to understand social support is in terms of social networks by studying the various aspects associated with the support network; the social ties to other individuals, groups, and larger community. 25,26 Recent research and theoretical perspectives have broadened the use of the term to encompass abstract ideas of anticipation, perceptions, quality of support, quantity of supportive interactions and other abstract characteristics of persons, behaviors, relationships, or social systems. 25 The diversity of our understanding of social support can be categorized into: i) kinds: emotional vs instrumental; ii) sources: family vs friends and; iii) other facets, forms or expressions of support.…”

Section: Our Family Portraitmentioning

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Our family portrait: the church as a model of social support

Ngenye

2018

Qual Res Med Healthc

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The church means many things to many people. Some would describe it as a culture, network, organization, or family. The purpose of this study is to understand of the role of the church in providing social support to individual church members and to uncover meanings prescribed by individuals about the nature of social support in the church. I analyze the context in which church practices are embedded, the processes of creating social support, and the meanings of church-related activities and gatherings that contribute to social support. The study examines how the health-related needs of church members are not only physiological but also accounted for in emotional, psychological and social terms. By using metaphor as a framework for interpretation of members' meanings, my analysis of social support is broadened to include religious contexts. This study adds to growing literature on the connection between religion, communication and health.

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Section: Our Family Portraitmentioning

confidence: 99%

Our family portrait: the church as a model of social support

Ngenye

2018

Qual Res Med Healthc

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“…Par ailleurs, si les acteurs communautaires peuvent en théorie être considérés comme formant un système de soutien social (Lecomte 1986;Lin et al, 1979), nos résultats montrent en concordance avec la littérature sur le sujet (Heller et al, 1990) qu'il est difficile de mettre en place des interventions à même de reproduire les interactions sociales dans le réseau naturel des individus-en témoigne la difficulté à impliquer les employés proches-aidants et à obtenir d'eux une forme de réciprocité dans la relation. Cependant, les quelques recommandations pratiques formulées ci-dessus pourraient faire en sorte que les ressources communautaires soient perçues comme un soutien social par les employés proches-aidants.…”

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Concilier travail et soins à un proche au Canada: quel soutien des acteurs communautaire ?

Nogues¹,

Tremblay

2017

CJNSER

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RÉSUMÉS'il peut être satisfaisant de prendre soin d'un proche en perte d'autonomie, le rôle de proche-aidant engendre un certain nombre de tensions et des difficultés à se maintenir en emploi. Face à cette situation, les acteurs communautaires ont été désignés comme une source de soutien importante pour les proches-aidants. Il n'existe toutefois à notre connaissance aucune étude qualitative se penchant sur la relation de soutien entre organismes communautaires et proches-aidants en emploi. Suite à notre recherche comprenant 33 entrevues semi-directives auprès de proches-aidants actifs sur le marché du travail et d'organismes communautaires québécois, menée entre septembre 2014 et juin 2015 au Québec, nous constatons deux faits majeurs : 1) les acteurs communautaires ont le potentiel de constituer une réelle ressource pour concilier emploi et soins à un proche; 2) par contre, leurs services tendent à être méconnus et difficilement accessibles par la majorité des employés proches-aidants. ABSTRACTHowever rewarding taking care of a relative can be, to be a caregiver causes multiple tensions and difficulties in remaining employed. In view of this issue, community organizations have been referred to as a great source of support for caregivers. However, to our knowledge, no qualitative study has ever focussed on the supportive relationship between the community sector and employed caregivers. Our study involved 33 semi-directive interviews with working caregivers and community organizations in Quebec between September 2014 and June 2015. It revealed two main facts: 1) community organizations have the potential to be a real source of support for work-care balance; 2) however, their services remain unknown and hard to access by the majority of employed caregivers. Nogues & Tremblay (2016) MOTS CLÉS 20To be notified about new ANSERJ articles, subscribe here. / Afin d'être avisé des nouveaux articles dans ANSERJ, s'inscrire ici .

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“…Social support entails, for Lin, functional or structural elements that, whether real or actually perceived as such by the individual, involve comfort from their community, social network and close friends 2 . For Bowling, social support supplies the individual with emotional, instrumental or economic help from the social network 3 .…”

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¿Tienen apoyo social los reclusos drogodependientes?: Estudio en una prisión andaluza

Rodríguez–Martínez¹,

Ruiz-Rodríguez²,

Antón-Basanta³

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Rev. esp. sanid. penit.

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Aims: To discover and compare social support received by drug-dependent inmates in a drug free program and other inmates participating in a methadone maintenance program (MMP).Materials and Methods: Transversal descriptive observational study carried out at Albolote Prison (Granada). The prison population at the time of the study was 1,763 inmates. The drug addicts were divided into two groups: those in a methadone maintenance program (MMP, 279 inmates) and those participating in a drug free program (58 inmates). A random sample of 60 inmates in the MMP was obtained. All the members of the drug free program participated. The two groups were interviewed to discover more about their family structure, socio-economic level and qualifications. The MOS social support survey was also used in self applied format with assistance from the interviewer. The percentages obtained from each dimension of the MOS questionnaire for each group was compared using Pearson's chi-square test.

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Social Support, Stressful Life Events, and Illness: A Model and an Empirical Test

Cited by 743 publications

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Our family portrait: the church as a model of social support

Our family portrait: the church as a model of social support

Concilier travail et soins à un proche au Canada: quel soutien des acteurs communautaire ?

¿Tienen apoyo social los reclusos drogodependientes?: Estudio en una prisión andaluza

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