Sourcebook of Social Support and Personality

1. Social Support, Personality, and Supportive Interactions

   1. Personality and Help Seeking

      • Arie Nadler

      Pages 379-407

   2. Social Support, Stress, and Personality

      • Giora Keinan

      Pages 409-427

   3. Personality and the Provision of Support

      • Rebecca L. Collins, Adam Di Paula

      Pages 429-443

   4. Openness to Emotion as Predictor of Perceived, Requested, and Observer Reports of Social Support

      • Patricia M. Colby, Robert A. Emmons

      Pages 445-472

2. Back Matter

   Pages 473-508

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The work of 47 contributors from the U.S., Canada, and Israel, the Sourcebook gives special attention to the complexity of the social support construct, expanding the field's theoretical base by seriously reappraising social support research in the context of findings from other fields of psychology and related disciplines. Personality processes are specified to account for observed associations between social support and physical well-being. Several new studies are included which illustrate empirical approaches to exploring these processes. And key contributions highlight the great strides made in understanding the links among personal dispositions, situational contexts, and potentially supportive transactions.

• Motivation
• attention
• interaction
• personality
• psychology
• stress
• well-being

• Department of Psychology, Hamilton College, Clinton, USA

  Gregory R. Pierce

• Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA

  Brian Lakey

• Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

  Irwin G. Sarason, Barbara R. Sarason

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