Social support: Mapping the construct
- 1 February 2009
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
- Vol. 26 (1), 113-120
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407509105526
Abstract
Social support is a construct with multiple dimensions that can be approached at multiple levels. Findings from a variety of disciplines and recognition of its bidirectional nature can help map the construct. Bidirectionality is a process that requires attention to moderators, such as, gender, cultural change, and personal development, together with the relationship between the receiver and the provider of support. Both close personal ties and weaker ones that often are part of community involvement need to be taken into account in order to map the construct comprehensively.Keywords
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