Social Support Research in Community Psychology

By M. Barrera. 2000

223 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions

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In Clinical Psychology

1. M. Guan
2. Juan Herrero
3. Enrique Gracia
4. Bert N. Uchino
5. Kevin B. Wright
6. S. Ullman
7. Jiyeon So

In General Health Professions

1. M. Guan
2. Juan Herrero
3. Enrique Gracia
4. Bert N. Uchino
5. Kevin B. Wright
6. S. Ullman
7. Jiyeon So

Citations in the corpus

• Understanding the Links Between Social Support and Physical Health: A Life-Span Perspective With Emphasis on the Separability of Perceived and Received Support (2009, background): “Although perceived support consistently shows such stressbuffering influences, there is much greater variability in stressbuffering studies that examine received support (Barrera, 2000; Uchino & Birmingham, 2008).”
• Structural Models of the Relations of Assault Severity, Social Support, Avoidance Coping, Self-Blame, and PTSD Among Sexual Assault Survivors (2007, background): “There are multiple models of the relationship between social support and psychological distress and well-being (see review in Barrera, 2000).”
• Measuring perceived community support: Factorial structure, longitudinal invariance, and predictive validity of the PCSQ (perceived community support questionnaire) (2007, background): “Barrera (2000) considers that social support is a central concept in community psychology “that attempts to capture helping transactions that occur between people who share the same households, schools, neighborhoods, workplaces, organizations, and other community settings” (p. 215).”
• Influence of Social Identity on Self-Efficacy Beliefs Through Perceived Social Support: A Social Identity Theory Perspective (2016, background): “…shows mixed findings regarding the relationship between received support and health outcomes (e.g., Bolger & Amarel, 2007; Uchino, 2009), consistent positive association between perceived support and health outcomes has been found (e.g., Barrera, 2000; Uchino, Bowen, Carlisle, & Birmingham, 2012).”
• Social Networks, Interpersonal Social Support, and Health Outcomes: A Health Communication Perspective (2016, background): “In addition to convenience, online sources of social support can also help people with health problems overcome accessibility barriers and high service fees associated with other (more traditional) sources of information and support, such as therapy (Barrera, 2000).”