Thus, even in cases where parents feel a
lack of social support for parenting, this could be compensated by other types of appropriate parenting practices.
So higher
levels of social support from all three sources (family, friends, and significant others) were negatively related to loneliness.
The findings provide new insight into the
role of social support and interaction in developing wisdom, she said.
Healthy friendships provide children with a
source of social support which can be accessed when children meet stress and challenges.
Indeed, this is just one example in a growing body of evidence pointing to the
importance of social support in helping people reach their fitness goals.
This 60 - item measure assesses child and adolescent
perceptions of social support from parents, teachers, classmates, close friends, and people at school.
In the same way that different teenagers need different
types of social support from their parents, they need different types of digital support, as well.
And if you're getting that
kind of social support from the site, you might be less likely to be worried about your body size.
Results: Managers experienced higher demands, higher level of conflicts, and lower
degree of social support from... peers.
In particular it is important to know which
forms of social support may be especially protective against postpartum depression so that they can be encouraged.
Key points to this study: This study shows that having a lower level
of social support during pregnancy is associated with a higher likelihood of postpartum depression.
The second started with maternal trauma history to lower levels
of social support at enrollment to depression at 9 months and then to increased parenting stress at 18 months.
Some mothers expressed a desire to maintain social networks and
systems of social support and, similarly, to keep children's school connections.
Key points to this study: This study suggests that the protective effects
of social support against postpartum depression are not mediated through a general reduction in the mom's feeling of stress.
Thus, the clarification of effective social support in relation to such psychological health and well - being outcomes using quantitative methods would allow for the
development of social support literature.
These days we have a great
deal of social support on the internet, and can confess doubt anonymously and find like - minded people.
But the idea of clients as citizens of larger communities, as contributors to their larger world and not just as
receivers of social support, hasn't entered the mainstream of therapy.
However large scale studies which show significant correlations like this, and do not include other
pieces of social support data to help interpret those correlations, can be misleading.
When one of his patients had to be hospitalized, for example, the group designated two people to always stay with the patient — an impressive
display of social support, he says.
We see this type of physiology playing out in people with a lack
of social support who are more likely to have cardiovascular and other health problems than those with stable, secure relationships.
Automatic negative thoughts, quality and
frequency of social support, self - esteem, and disruptive life events significantly predicted depression scores in people with mild / moderate ID.
While
satisfaction of social support demonstrated a negative relationship with maternal outcomes, the amount of supports or coping strategies employed by mothers did not impact reported levels of distress.
It also highlights that the type
of social support which is of most benefit to the mom varies according to her living situation and relationships status.
Family members, friends, and her other
sources of social support — including other mothers — are important for her to successfully reach her goals.
Individual and martial adaptation in men with autism spectrum disorder and their spouses: The
role of social support and coping strategies.
Findings suggested that frequency of blogging predicted feelings of connection to extended family and friends which then predicted
perceptions of social support.