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Social Support

Social Support is the provision of emotional, instrumental, informational, or appraisal assistance through social relationships and interactions that buffer stress, enhance well-being, and facilitate adaptive functioning within individual and community health contexts.

18.2K

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Stress, social support, and the buffering hypothesis.

Sheldon Cohen, Thomas A. Wills · Psychological Bulletin · 1985 · 17.1K citations

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The Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support

Gregory D. Zimet, Nancy Wray Dahlem, Sara G. Zimet et al. · Journal of Personality Assessment · 1988 · 13K citations · Full text

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Social Support as a Moderator of Life Stress

Sidney Cobb · Psychosomatic Medicine · 1976 · 6.8K citations

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The MOS social support survey

Cathy D. Sherbourne, Anita L. Stewart · Social Science & Medicine · 1991 · 6.6K citations

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Social Relationships and Health.

Sheldon Cohen · American Psychologist · 2004 · 4.8K citations

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Authors

49.6K

  1. NK
    Neal Krause

    University of Michigan, United States

    63 publications · 7K citations

    44

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  2. IG
    Irwin G. Sarason

    University of Washington, United States

    39 publications · 11.6K citations

    33

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  3. CE
    Carolyn E. Cutrona

    Iowa State University, United States

    36 publications · 9.9K citations

    33

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  4. RJ
    Robert Joseph Taylor

    University of Michigan, United States

    32 publications · 3.4K citations

    30

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  5. LM
    Linda M. Chatters

    University of Michigan, United States

    32 publications · 3.5K citations

    30

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Institutions

8.1K

  1. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    105 h-index

    818 publications

    88.5K citations

  2. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    75 h-index

    484 publications

    51.5K citations

  3. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    69 h-index

    336 publications

    37.4K citations

  4. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    69 h-index

    432 publications

    44K citations

  5. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Chapel Hill, United States

    62 h-index

    508 publications

    33.6K citations

  6. University of California, San Francisco

    San Francisco, United States

    62 h-index

    347 publications

    38.8K citations

  7. University of Pittsburgh

    Pittsburgh, United States

    62 h-index

    331 publications

    25.9K citations

  8. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    61 h-index

    303 publications

    20.1K citations

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  1. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

    158 publications · 41.7K citations

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  2. Social Science & Medicine

    187 publications · 29.9K citations

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  3. American Journal of Community Psychology

    AJCP · 143 publications · 24.7K citations

    80

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  4. Health Psychology

    142 publications · 20.8K citations

    78

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  5. PubMed

    Repository · 432 publications · 21K citations

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