Social Support and Strain from Partner, Family, and Friends: Costs and Benefits for Men and Women in Adulthood

By Heather R. Walen, Margie E. Lachman. 2000

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Health, Social Psychology

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Age moderates the relationship between social support and psychosocial problems (2003, background): “Some findings indicate that interaction with, and social support from, kin are more strongly related to quality of life and general well-being in the middle-aged and elderly (e.g., Lynch, 1998; Walen & Lachman, 2000 ).”
Development in midlife. (2004, background): “Social relations with family, friends, and coworkers can provide a major source of satisfaction and contribute to wellbeing and health in midlife, but also can be a source of stress (Rook 2003, Walen & Lachman 2000).”
Financial Stress, Social Supports, Gender, and Anxiety During College: A Stress-Buffering Perspective ψ (2018, background): “It is also important to recognize that the amount and nature of financial stress and social supports change in later stages of adulthood (Walen & Lachman, 2000).”
Social Negativity and Health: Conceptual and Measurement Issues (2011, background): “In a large community sample, Walen and Lachman (2000) found that negativity from family members was more predictive of psychological outcomes for women than for men, and that friend and family support buffered the effects of negativity more effectively for women.”
Social connectedness as a source and consequence of meaning in life (2016, result): “These scales have been shown to correlate positively with social contacts frequency and negatively with the perceived relationship strain, supporting its construct validity (Seeman et al., 2011; Walen & Lachman, 2000).”
Social Relationships and Health: A Flashpoint for Health Policy (2010, background): “For example, marriage is the most salient source of both support and stress for many individuals (Walen and Lachman 2000), and poor marital quality has been associated with compromised immune and endocrine function and depression (Kiecolt-Glaser and Newton 2001).”
Social support, social strain, loneliness, and well-being among older adults (2014, methodology): “Social support was measured by three items of a social support scale developed by Walen and Lachman (2000).”
Friendship quality and perceived relationship changes predict psychosocial adjustment in early adulthood (2005, neutral): “Method”
A developmental-contextual model of couples coping with chronic illness across the adult life span. (2007, neutral): “…during times of stress women differentially turn to same-sex persons in their network (Taylor et al., 2000), find this support more helpful than that from the spouse (Pistrang & Barker, 1998), and use this support to buffer the detrimental role of strained spousal relations (Walen & Lachman, 2000).”
Associations among relational values, support, health, and well‐being across the adult lifespan (2017, background): “Indeed, Walen and Lachman (2000) suggest that friendship networks may exert a larger influence on health in late life not only because they are selective relationships (Roberts & Dunbar, 2011) but also because friendships may often be the only relationships left in an individual’s life.”
The assessment of positivity and negativity in social networks: the reliability and validity of the social relationships index† (2009, background): “Social relationships have been associated with stress-buffering influences (Cohen & Wills, 1985), greater life satisfaction (Walen & Lachman, 2001), and lower rates of mood disorders (Bertera, 2005).”
An Examination of Acculturative Stress, Interpersonal Social Support, and Use of Online Ethnic Social Groups among Chinese International Students (2006, background): “Well-documented findings also indicated that women seek more help than men (eg, Robertson, 1988 ; Walen & Lachman, 2000 ).”
I Matter to My Friend, Therefore I am Happy: Friendship, Mattering, and Happiness (2011, background): “There is empirical evidence suggesting that friendship experiences contribute very little, if at all, to well-being (e.g., happiness) when an individual is married or involved in a committed romantic relationship (Bertera 2005; Demir 2010b; Walen and Lachman 2000 ).”