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A Relational Schema Approach to Social Support

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Sourcebook of Social Support and Personality

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Psychological Bulletin (Burman & Margolin, 1992), Science (House, Landis, & Umberson, 1988), and a lot of grandmothers attest to the impact that relationships have on health, illness, and subjective well-being. This apparent fact has spawned a great deal of research directed at understanding the role of social support: Database searches of just a 5-year period, using the keywords social support, recently yielded 2,508 citations from PsycInfo and 1,321 from Medline.

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Pierce, T., Baldwin, M.W., Lydon, J.E. (1997). A Relational Schema Approach to Social Support. In: Pierce, G.R., Lakey, B., Sarason, I.G., Sarason, B.R. (eds) Sourcebook of Social Support and Personality. The Springer Series in Social/Clinical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1843-7_2

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