Poor social support refers to a lack of emotional, practical or financial assistance from friends and family members that can help an individual cope with stressors in their life. Full definition
Maternal mental health was associated with socio - economic disadvantage, impoverished interpersonal relationships and with poor social support. (gov.scot)
Although it is certainly easy to assume poor social support could cause depression, Clark never definitively showed a causal relation. (personalityresearch.org)
The analyses showed that our model was a good fit to the metabolic functioning data in the CARDIA sample, implicating low childhood SES and early family environment effects on metabolic functioning that were mediated in part by poor social support and chronic negative affect. (pnas.org)