Social support, which is the perception or experience that one is cared for, esteemed, and
part of a mutually supportive social network, has beneficial effects on mental and physical …

The purpose of this article is to determine whether the positive association between social
support and well-being is attributable more to an overall beneficial effect of support (main-or …

It is widely recognized that social relationships and affiliation have powerful effects on
physical and mental health. When investigators write about the impact of social relationships …

The thesis of this review is that the global concept of social support should be abandoned in
favor of more precise concepts that fit narrower models of stress-distress relationships …

In this review, the authors examine the evidence linking social support to physiological
processes and characterize the potential mechanisms responsible for these covariations. A …

Social support has been reliably related to lower rates of morbidity and mortality. An
important issue concerns the physiological mechanisms by which support influences such …

In planning this book I did not intend to spend much time or energy discussing what stress is,
as I had naively assumed that the concept of stress was already clear in the literature …

Although there has been a substantial effort to establish the beneficial effects of social
support on health and well-being, relatively little work has focused on how social support …

A cognitive theory of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is proposed that assumes
traumas experienced after early childhood give rise to 2 sorts of memory, 1 verbally …

This book will change the way we understand the future of our planet. It is both alarming and
hopeful. James Gustave Speth, renowned as a visionary environmentalist leader, warns that …