Exploring the Determinants of Support Provision: Provider Characteristics, Personal Networks, Community Contexts, and Support Following Life Events
- 1 September 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Health and Social Behavior
- Vol. 37 (3), 252-264
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2137295
Abstract
To explore the determinants of support provision in the natural disaster context, we followed House (1981) and developed a model that specifies how characteristics of the providers, their personal networks, and the community contexts in which they live facilitate or impede their ability to provide support. All three sets of factors affected support provision during Hurricane Andrew, bur the pattern of effects differs for the preparation and short-term recovery phases of the hurricane. Age, income, network density, and local economic conditions had significant effects on support provision in the preparation phase. Income did not have a significant effect on short-term recovery support, but religion, house damage, the size and diversity dimensions of network structure, and the local bonds find sentiments dimensions of community attachment did. After comparing the explanatory power of our model in the true phases, Lye conclude by investigating the implications of this test for understanding the determinants of support provision more generally.Keywords
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