Social support takes many forms and is mostly a positive force in our lives. It can involve listening to a friend's problems, offering advice, picking up shopping, mowing the lawn, or being there ...

Ann Oakley develops a sociology of the research process, telling how a research project on caring and social support is undertaken. The book has much resonance for social science researchers and ...

A girl with Down's syndrome who has been supported by a speech and language charity for ten years says it has helped her ...

Information on perceived level of social support was gathered through the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support. The survey also asked about mental health resources available to providers ...

1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Heightened financial stress is having a detrimental effect on overall health and well-being, with more people turning to social support systems for help, according to new ...

A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign examines differences in mental health challenges for men and women farmers, focusing on the role of social support in mitigating stress.

The importance of social ties in the lives of older people is becoming increasingly recognized as strong associations have consistently been found between social support networks with physical and ...

The findings suggest that this "social support" might reduce the stress caused by the loss of a mother in these intelligent and highly social animals. As the scientists put it in their research ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the UK in early 2020, and lockdown restrictions were imposed in late March, the disruptions to social support networks and communities were immense. Networks of informal ...