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Handbook of Social Support and the Family

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  • © 1996

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Editors:
  1. Gregory R. Pierce

    1. Hamilton College, Clinton, USA

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  2. Barbara R. Sarason

    1. University of Washington, Seattle, USA

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  3. Irwin G. Sarason

    1. University of Washington, Seattle, USA

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Research on Social Support and the Family

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Conceptualizing and Assessing Social Support in the Context of the Family

      • Gregory R. Pierce, Barbara R. Sarason, Irwin G. Sarason, Helene J. Joseph, Ciarda A. Henderson
      Pages 3-23

    3. Information Processing Approaches to the Study of Relationship and Social Support Schemata

      • Penny L. Yee, Kristine E. Santoro, Jennifer S. Paul, Lisa B. Rosenbaum
      Pages 25-42

    4. Social Support in Marriage

      • Steven R. H. Beach, Frank D. Fincham, Jennifer Katz, Thomas N. Bradbury
      Pages 43-65

    5. Social Support in Its Cultural Context

      • Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, Sheree Marshall
      Pages 67-79

  3. The Role of Social Support in Family Relationships

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. The Neglected Links between Marital Support and Marital Satisfaction

      • Linda K. Acitelli
      Pages 83-103

    3. The Socialization of Emotional Support Skills in Childhood

      • Brant R. Burleson, Adrianne W. Kunkel
      Pages 105-140

    4. Attachment, Social Competency, and the Capacity to Use Social Support

      • Helen M. Coble, Diana L. Gantt, Brent Mallinckrodt
      Pages 141-172

    5. Social Support as a Determinant of Marital Quality

      • Carolyn E. Cutrona
      Pages 173-194

    6. Parental Characteristics as Influences on Adjustment in Adulthood

      • Gordon Parker, Gemma L. Gladstone
      Pages 195-218

    7. Compensatory Processes in the Social Networks of Older Adults

      • Karen S. Rook, Tonya L. Schuster
      Pages 219-248

    8. What Is Supportive about Social Support?

      • Richard M. Ryan, Jessica A. Solky
      Pages 249-267

    9. The Impact of Marital and Social Network Support on Quality of Parenting

      • Ronald L. Simons, Christine Johnson
      Pages 269-287

    10. The Mutual Influence of Family Support and Youth Adaptation

      • Christine Timko, Rudolf H. Moos
      Pages 289-310

  4. Stress, Clinical Problems, and Support Needs for Families

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 311-311
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    2. The Relation of Family Support to Adolescents’ Psychological Distress and Behavior Problems

      • Manuel Barrera Jr., Susan A. Li
      Pages 313-343

    3. Social Support in Postdivorce Families

      • Inge Bretherton, Reghan Walsh, Molly Lependorf
      Pages 345-373

    4. Social Support and Pregnancy

      • Christine Dunkel-Schetter, Lynda M. Sagrestano, Pamela Feldman, Christine Killingsworth
      Pages 375-412
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About this book

While insights sometimes are slow in coming, they often seem obvious when they finally arrive. This handbook is an outcome of the insight that the topics of social support and the family are very closely linked. Obvious as this might seem, the fact remains that the literatures dealing with social support and the family have been deceptively separate and distinct. For example, work on social support began in the 1970s with the accumulation of evidence that social ties and social integration play important roles in health and personal adjustment. Even though family members are often the key social supporters of individuals, relatively little re­ search of social support was targeted on family interactions as a path to specifying supporter processes. It is now recognized that one of the most important features of the family is its role in providing the individual with a source of support and acceptance. Fortunately, in recen t years, the distinctness and separateness of the fields of social support and the family have blurred. This handbook provides the first collation and integration of social support and family research. This integration calls for specifying processes (such as the cognitions associated with poor support availability and unrewarding faIllily constellations) and factors (such as cultural differences in family life and support provision) that are pertinent to integration.

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Editors and Affiliations

  • Hamilton College, Clinton, USA

    Gregory R. Pierce

  • University of Washington, Seattle, USA

    Barbara R. Sarason, Irwin G. Sarason

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