SOCIAL SUPPORT AND BEREAVEMENT: AN INQUIRY INTO HOW PSYCHOSOCIAL ASSETS PREDICT OUTCOME.
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Title
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SOCIAL SUPPORT AND BEREAVEMENT: AN INQUIRY INTO HOW PSYCHOSOCIAL ASSETS PREDICT OUTCOME.
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Identifier
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AAI8801770
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identifier
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8801770
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Creator
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TORIAN, LUCIA VANOGLE.
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Contributor
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Charles Kadushin
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Date
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1987
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Social
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Abstract
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Previous studies have implicated social support as a mediator of stress or the morbid sequelae of stressors. We suggest that stress reactions and social support are effects of stable personality factors and that social support not be approached in the traditional way but rather as a dependent variable. Demographic, psychosocial and mental and physiological health variables of 168 widows were compared. The majority of subjects were members of hospital-sponsored widows' support groups. The remainder served as community controls. The Horowitz Impact of Event Scale (IOE) was administered to all subjects as part of an in-depth interview. Group members had significantly higher intrusion subsets than controls, and controls had significantly higher avoidance subsets than group members. Women with internal Locus of Control (LOC) fared better on the IOE than women with external IOE; however, women with external LOC in the control group did better than women with external LOC in the support group. This suggests that group membership has variant meaning and consequences and that stable personality factors predict modes of networking and social support as well as mental health.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Sociology
