The emotional meaning of instrumental social support

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Students’ Perceptions of Emotional and Instrumental Teacher Support: Relations with Motivational and Emotional Responses (2013, background): “One may therefore, refer to nurturing versus action-facilitating support (Cutrona & Suhr, 1994; Semmer et al., 2008).”
Ten years on: A review of recent research on the Job Demand–Control (-Support) model and psychological well-being (2010, background): “For example, social support can be accompanied by explicit or implicit negative emotional meanings, like condemning a person for being in need of help, thereby undermining the beneficial effect of social support and leading to reduced selfesteem and well-being (cf. Semmer et al., 2008).”
The battered apple: An application of stressor-emotion-control/support theory to teachers’ experience of violence and bullying (2010, background): “This is consistent with findings that the types of tangible, instrumental support failed to match the perceived stressors, as discussed above (Semmer et al., 2008).”