01:830:377 Lecture 5: Lecture 5 Notes
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Social support & illness: social network size study; people who have social network size live longer than those who don"t, results are mixed, some studies actually show that a larger social network can actually be bad for health, berkman & syme study, 1979, proved that men & women both benefit from larger social networks, social support, received social support amount of support that can be accessed by an individual, perceived social support amount of support appraised to be available. Both psychological & physical health benefit: providing support to others, associated health benefits, decreased mortality risk, reduces sympathetic arousal lowers physiological stress response, better health outcomes providing support = you have resources to do so, s. l brown, 2003, giving social support lowers mortality vs. receiving social support, negative relationships, rejection/neglect, dependency, diminished self respect, conflict, newsom, 2008, health related functions of social support, direct effects hypothesis protection during stressful and non stressful times, buffering hypothesis protection against effects of stress.
