Measuring perceived and received social support.

By T. Wills, Ori Shinar. 2000

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On the interpersonal regulation of emotions: Emotional reliance across gender, relationships, and cultures (2005, background): “These results fit with the theoretical benefits outlined by Reis and Franks (1994) and Wills and Shinar (2000), among others.”
How Does Perceived Support Lead to Better Performance? An Examination of Potential Mechanisms (2009, methodology): “Perception of support availability was assessed using a 20-item self-report questionnaire constructed specifically for this study, to ensure the measure was relevant to the population under study (House & Kahn, 1985; Wills & Shinar, 2000).”
Measuring perceived community support: Factorial structure, longitudinal invariance, and predictive validity of the PCSQ (perceived community support questionnaire) (2007, background): “…documenting the positive association between social support from close and intimate relationships and health and psychological well-being, and a sizeable number of psychometrically sound instruments are available to researchers (see, e.g., Vaux, 1992; Wills & Shinar, 2000, for revisions).”
Why individuals in larger teams perform worse (2012, background): “…to find a significant relationship between the amount of help received and individual level performance (George & Zhou, 2001, 2007; Mueller & Kamdar, 2011) as well as help receipt and perceived support (Helgeson, 1993; Lakey & Heller, 1988; Sarason, Sarason, & Pierce, 1990; Wills & Shinar, 2000).”
Peer support within a health care context: a concept analysis. (2003, methodology): “the provision of practical help or tangible aid) (Wills and Shinar, 2000) does occur rarely as a supportive function in peer relationships but due to its infrequency it is not a defining attribute.”
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): “…as perceived support has been more consistently related to beneficial health outcomes than has received support (Barrera, 2000; Uchino, 2004; Wills & Shinar, 2000).1 A life-span perspective can inform theoretical models as to why differences exist between perceived and received support…”
Matching social support with stressors: Effects on factors underlying performance in tennis. (2004, background): “Generally, it is perceived availability of social support that has been most consistently linked with the buffering hypothesis (Cohen, 1988; Cohen, Gottlieb, & Underwood, 2000; Cohen & Hoberman, 1983; Cohen & Wills, 1985; Wills & Shinar, 2000).”
Social Support as a Moderator Between Victimization and Internalizing–Externalizing Distress From Bullying (2007, background): “Several studies have demonstrated a stress-buffering effect when measuring social support with perceived measures, but not with received measures (DunkelSchetter & Bennet, 1990, and Wethington & Kessler, 1986, as cited in Wills & Shinar, 2000).”
Influence of Social Identity on Self-Efficacy Beliefs Through Perceived Social Support: A Social Identity Theory Perspective (2016, background): “Social support has been found to be associated with lower health symptomatology (Wills & Shinar, 2000), lower mortality (Kessler & McLeod, 1985), and better mental and physical health (House, Landis, & Umberson, 1988).”
Compassionate love for close others and humanity (2005, methodology): “Our measure assessed multiple dimensions of support (Argyle, 1992; Wills & Shinar, 2000) by asking participants the degree to which they believed they have offered ‘others’ each of the following types of social support: emotional support, instrumental support, information support, at UNIV…”