SOC363H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Child Development
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Social support and mental health - turner & brown. Social support one social bonds, social integration, and primary group relations. Social bonds and supportive relationships with others are essential to mental health and can protect one from the effects of stress. Social support is multidimensional, it includes: perceived, structural, received support. Major hypothesis: low levels of social support increase the risk for depressive symptomology: general support for this hypothesis, but there isnt consensus about how social support affects mental health. Mediating variable? buffers the effects of stress: the degree to which social support is a main effect or a mediating variable varies across different social groups. Eg. social status affects the availability of social support as well as ones exposure to stress. Ones mental health status and personality also affect availability. Social support always involves either the presence or implication of stable human relationships. Social bonds, social integration and primary group relations are central constructs in sociological theory.
