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Support System

Known as: social support, supports system, support systems 
A network of family, friends, neighbors, and community members that is available in times of need to give psychological, physical, and financial help… 
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Women's perceptions of group support and adaptation to breast cancer.
Formal cancer support groups are thought to assist women to adapt to the physiological and psychosocial sequelae of breast cancer… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
The determinants of parenting competence in adolescent mothers
This study examines whether models of parenting competence derived from studies of adult mothers are descriptive of adolescent… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Coping as a predictor of adolescent substance abuse treatment outcome.
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Families of children with developmental disabilities: an examination of family hardiness.
Using the Typology Model of Adjustment and Adaptation, a family stress model, relationships among family hardiness, family… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
A reexamination of the effectiveness of self-care education for persons with arthritis.
We examined the effectiveness of 2 models of arthritis self-care intervention, the home study model and the small group model… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Social support, locus of control, and parenting in three low-income groups of mothers: black teenagers, black adults, and white adults.
Mother's social support, their instrumental use of extended family members and of professionals for help, and their sense of… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Pain in rheumatoid arthritis: relationship to demographic, medical, and psychological factors.
Our purpose was to investigate the relationship among demographic, medical, and psychological factors and self-reported pain in… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Hostility, anger expression, cardiovascular responsivity, and social support
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Self-concept as a mediating factor in delinquency.
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Relationship of psychosocial factors to smoking behavior change in an intervention program.
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