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KMID : 0377619910560030205
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1991 Volume.56 No. 3 p.205 ~ p.208
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The Effect of Social Support on Stress and Adaptation
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Abstract
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Social support serves as a moderator of life stress by assisting coping, adaptation during life transition and crisis. It has a positive influence on health and well being generally. Social support encompasses three components of affect, affirmation, and aid conceptually.
Recent research indicates that the direct and buffering effects of social support on health and well being are not necessarily mutually exclusive but may function simultaneously.
Lack of social support increases mortality risks, and stress and social support influences physical and emotional symptomatology.
Social support can protect people in crisis from a wide variety of pathological states: from low birth weight to death, from arthritis through tuberculosis to depression, alcoholism, and the social breakdown syndrome. Social support may reduce the amount of medication required, accelerate recovery, and facilitate compliance with prescribed medical regimens.
The relations of social support and morbidity, recovery from illness, health practice are ,not consistently established and further research. is needed.
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