Wang, Ya-Ching Miao, Nae-Fang Chang, Shiow-Ru
Published in
Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing
WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: Sexual minority individuals are more likely to experience depressive disorders than heterosexual individuals. Factors associated with depressive symptoms among sexual minority individuals have been explored and examined; however, there is a limited evidence to understand the factors among sexual minority women in non-...
Kneavel, Meredith
Published in
Psychological reports
Research suggests that gender differences exist in both stress and how social support is utilized and that the relationship between stress and social support may not be linear. An internet survey of n = 1080 participants was conducted evaluating quality and quantity of social support, gender, age, and perceived stress and coping. Reported quality o...
Wachter, Karin Cook Heffron, Laurie Dalpe, Jessica
Published in
Journal of interpersonal violence
Gaps in knowledge remain regarding how and from whom women resettling to the United States as refugees seek help for intimate partner violence (IPV), and what happens when they do. This study examined ways in which women seek help for IPV across varied contexts and at different times both pre- and postresettlement. Researchers used a purposive samp...
Barranha, Rui Teixeira, Tânia Quarenta, João von Doellinger, Orlando
Published in
The International journal of social psychiatry
Schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) are the most impairing psychiatric disorders and are a major cause of social exclusion. Despite that, there are only two studies published assessing the socioeconomic characteristics of SSD patients living in Portugal. The purpose of this study is to assess the degree of social and family support for SSD patie...
Kagan, Maya
Published in
Psychological reports
Based on the stress-buffering model, the current study sought to examine the moderating role of perceived social support in the association between death anxiety and psychological distress among nurses. Select variables found in previous studies to correlate with psychological distress served in the current study as covariates to control for their ...
Why, Felix Yong Peng Undarwati, Anna Nuzulia, Siti
Published in
Journal of health psychology
This study used a behavioural ecological approach by observing whether solitary and social smoking varied as a function of gender and stress. In sample 1 (N = 414), the result was consistent with the tend-and-befriend hypothesis, in that more female smokers were observed to engage in social smoking during high stress. When the number of smokers obs...
Lo, Camilla Kin-Ming Ho, Frederick Ka-Wing Yan, Elsie Lu, Yu Chan, Ko Ling Ip, Patrick
Published in
Journal of interpersonal violence
This study aimed to examine the associations between different types of child maltreatment and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and emotional and social problems in adolescents, and to examine the moderating effect of social support on those associations. A cross-sectional survey was conducted between January and June 2016 in Hong Kong. The s...
Filipovič Hrast, Maša Sendi, Richard Kerbler, Boštjan Kefo
Despite the development of various housing options across Europe, older people often face the choice of staying at home with the support of family and/or formal services or moving to a care home, but how people vary regarding these preferences and how newer cohorts will be different is under-researched. This study explores the housing choices of ol...
Belot, Rose-Angélique Bouteloup, Margaux Bonnet, Magalie Parmentier, Anne-Laure Magnin, Eloi Mauny, Frédéric Vuillier, Fabrice
Published in
Frontiers in Neurology
Objectives: The aim of this observational study was to describe social support and patterns of attachment among patients with migraine. We hypothesized that in comparison to the general population, insecure attachment is overrepresented in migraine patients, and that these patients have less social support. We also aimed to study the specific relat...
Weisel, Ori Zultan, Ro'i
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology
