Social support research proliferated across multiple disciplines for more than a half century.
This growth, as well as disciplinary differences, resulted in mixed views, conceptualizations …

The term social support is used to refer to the salutatory content of human relationships. This
chapter reviews various conceptualizations of social support and surveys the evidence for its …

Perceived support is consistently linked to good mental health, which is typically explained
as resulting from objectively supportive actions that buffer stress. Yet this explanation has …

Social support has been reliably related to physical health outcomes. However, the
conceptual basis of such links needs greater development. In this article, I argue for a life …

The chapter addresses the stigma associated with mental illnesses. It begins by
summarizing the development of thinking about labeling and stigma over the past half …

Considerable research has been devoted to examining the relations between self‐esteem
and social support. However, the exact nature and direction of these relations are not well …

Although social support is thought to boost feelings of closeness in dyadic relationships,
recent findings have suggested that support receipt can increase distress in recipients. The …

Depression is associated with social dysfunction and maladaptive social environments, but
mechanisms through which social relationships affect depressive psychopathology are …

Aim. This paper reports a study examining the influence of maternal perceptions of conflict
and relationship‐and postpartum‐specific support from the partner on the development of …

There is a continuum from ordinary to excessive impulsive buying tendencies (IBT), and low
self-esteem appears to be one of the major underlying motivators of this behavior that needs …