Communicating social support /

"This book provides new explanations for when and how receiving social support will be evaluated as helpful and relationally satisfying. The author's research addresses a variety of types of relationships and stresses, including young adult friends and romantic partners coping with the str...

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Main Author: Goldsmith, Daena J., 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Series:Advances in personal relationships (Cambridge, England)
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Puzzles in the study of enacted social support
  • Conceptualizing enacted support as communication
  • Communicating advice
  • Reexamining matching models of social support
  • Problematizing provider/recipient roles in troubles talk
  • Conclusions and implications.