Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust · 2004 · 63 citations · 0 references
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The purpose of this study was to explore trajectories of perceived social support among low-income women who survived Hurricane Katrina, and were surveyed prior to the hurricane and approximately one and four years thereafter (<i>N</i> = 562). Latent class growth analysis provided evidence of four trajectories of perceived support: <i>High Increasing</i> (35.9%), <i>High Decreasing</i> (20.3%), <i>Low Stable</i> (41.1 %), and <i>Low Decreasing</i> (2.7%). Bereavement was significantly predictive of membership in the <i>Low Stable</i> trajectory, relative to the <i>High Increasing</i> and <i>High Decreasing</i> trajectories. Higher psychological distress and indicators of greater social network size, density and closeness were significantly predictive of membership in the <i>Low Decreasing</i> trajectory, relative to the <i>High Increasing</i> and <i>High Decreasing</i> trajectories.