Communicating Social Support

By Daena J. Goldsmith. 2004

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Health, Social Psychology

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The Interaction Effect of Crisis Communication and Social Support on The Emotional Exhaustion of University Employees during the COVID-19 Crisis (2020, background): “This result shows that the role of coworker support from the perspective of uncertainty reduction theory, which suggests that employees can also depend on their coworkers as a source of information to reduce the uncertainties experienced (Chiaburu & Harrison, 2008; Fonner, 2015; Goldsmith, 2004; Mil”
How Does the Comforting Process Work? An Empirical Test of an Appraisal-Based Model of Comforting (2006, background): “but appraisal-based comforting suggests that emotional support is a gradual process that is discursively constructed both by the helper and the distressed person (Goldsmith, 2004).”
Mentoring to facilitate socialization: The case of the new faculty member (2002, background): “Social support As explained by Albrecht and Adelman (1987), social support is a form of communication that can be used to cope with the uncertainties of confronting new environments.”
Understanding the outcomes of supportive communication: A dual-process approach (2009, positive): “…outcomes (though it sometimes does), and (ii) messages intended to provide support vary in quality, with some message forms generally being quite effective at providing support and others being irregularly effective, ineffective, and even counterproductive (Burleson, 2003; Goldsmith, 2004).”
Explaining Variations in the Effects of Supportive Messages A Dual-Process Framework (2008, background): “Messages that aim to provide emotional support—those intended to comfort, reduce suffering, and relieve distress—can powerfully affect the feelings, coping behavior, personal relationships, and even physical health of the recipient (Albrecht & Goldsmith, 2003; Goldsmith, 2004; Uchino, 2004; Wills & ”
The Role of “Active Listening” in Informal Helping Conversations: Impact on Perceptions of Listener Helpfulness, Sensitivity, and Supportiveness and Discloser Emotional Improvement (2015, background): “A key contributor to whether troubles talk is helpful or harmful is the quality of enacted support—what is said and done in the service of talking about problems (Goldsmith, 2004).”
An Examination of Acculturative Stress, Interpersonal Social Support, and Use of Online Ethnic Social Groups among Chinese International Students (2006, background): “From the communication perspective, Albrecht and Adelman (1987) defined social support as ‘‘verbal and nonverbal communication between recipients and providers that helps manage uncertainty about the situation, the self, and the other or the relationship and functions to enhance a perception of pers”
The Effects of Social Support, Depression, and Stress on Drinking Behaviors in a College Student Sample (2009, background): “…that influences how providers and recipients view themselves, their situations, the other, and their relationship . . . and is the principal process through which individuals coordinate their actions in support-seeking and support-giving encounters’’ (Albrecht, Burleson, & Goldsmith, 2004, p. 421).”
Listening and Human Communication in the 21st Century (2011, neutral): “(Albrecht and Goldsmith, 2003; Cohen and Wills, 1985; Goldsmith, 2004; Uchino, 2004).”
Student-Initiated Advice in Academic Supervision (2009, background): “However, it has also been suggested that to an important degree, this is a contextual issue and that in certain cultural contexts, epistemic asymmetry is not treated as a dilemmatic issue in relation to advice giving (Goldsmith, 2004).”
The Social Dimension of Blogging about Health: Health Blogging, Social Support, and Well-being (2011, background): “A significant challenge of acquiring support in strong-tie relationships is managing concerns for social equity and the potential to overburden support providers (Albrecht & Adelman, 1987a; Goldsmith, 2004).”
Challenges in conceptualizing social support (2009, background): “The definitions of social support that have emerged in the literature can be broadly described in terms of three perspectives (for reviews see Burleson & MacGeorge, 2002; Goldsmith, 2004; Sarason, Sarason, & Pierce, 1994).”
Uncertainty during organizational change: Is it all about control? (2004, background): “Albrecht and Adelman (1987) provide a similar account of the relationship between communication, uncertainty, and control: ‘‘the significance of supportive communication that reduces one’s perceptions of uncertainty is that it helps the receiver in developing a sense of perceived control over…”
Social Networks, Interpersonal Social Support, and Health Outcomes: A Health Communication Perspective (2016, background): “Moreover, inadequate support from friends may occur if they feel that you have brought on your own health problems through unhealthy lifestyle decision, such as over-eating, smoking, or drinking alcohol (Goldsmith, 2004).”