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Social ties and health: The benefits of social integration

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Modeling cognitive adaptation: A longitudinal investigation of the impact of individual differences and coping on college adjustment and performance.

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1990 • 947 citations

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The Social Psychology of Self-Efficacy

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Emotional Support and Survival after Myocardial Infarction

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Supportive interactions, negative interactions, and depressed mood

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Socioeconomic Status and Chronic Stress: Does Stress Account for SES Effects on Health?

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Social support in pregnancy: Psychosocial correlates of birth outcomes and postpartum depression.

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A Health Status Questionnaire Using 30 Items From The Medical Outcomes Study

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Long-term effects of a control-relevant intervention with the institutionalized aged.

1977 • 515 citations

Social support in pregnancy: Psychosocial correlates of birth outcomes and postpartum depression.

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Optimism, coping, psychological distress, and high-risk sexual behavior among men at risk for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).

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1988 • 482 citations

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Psychobiologic Reactivity to Stress and Childhood Respiratory Illnesses

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Social Patterns of Distress

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Behavioral and Psychosocial Predictors of Physical Performance: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging

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High blood pressure and marital discord: Not being nasty matters more than being nice.

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Social support in social interaction: a moderator of cardiovascular reactivity.

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Divorce, Family Conflict, and Adolescents' Well-Being

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The quality and quantity of social support: Stroke recovery as psycho-social transition

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Dynamic role of social support in the link between chronic stress and psychological distress.

1991 • 224 citations

The Stressfulness of Separation among Nine-Month-Old Infants: Effects of Social Context Variables and Infant Temperament

1992 • 208 citations

Realistic acceptance as a predictor of decreased survival time in gay men with AIDS.

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Positive expectations predict health after heart transplantation.

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Risk, resistance, and psychological distress: A longitudinal analysis with adults and children.

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Parallels in the Study of Social Support and Social Strain

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Dynamic role of social support in the link between chronic stress and psychological distress.

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Alienation and Anomie

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Positive expectations predict health after heart transplantation.

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Control over stress, locus of control, and response to stress.

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Distress, denial, and low adherence to behavioral interventions predict faster disease progression in gay men infected with human immunodeficiency virus

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Realistic acceptance as a predictor of decreased survival time in gay men with AIDS.

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Families and Health: the Negative Side of Social Ties

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1992 • 158 citations

Life Stressors and Coping Style are Associated with Immune Measures in HIV-1 Infection—A Preliminary Report

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Perceived Family Functioning and Adolescent Suicidal Behavior

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Powerlessness, health and mortality: A longitudinal study of older men and mature women

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The construct of control: biological and psychosocial correlates.

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Differential Immune System Changes with Acute and Persistent Stress for Optimists vs Pessimists

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Active coping style is associated with natural killer cell cytotoxicity in asymptomatic HIV-1 seropositive homosexual men

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The Role of Psychological Characteristics in the Relation Between Socioeconomic Status and Perceived Health¹

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Social Support and the Development of Immune Function in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection

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Coping with adults' angry behavior: Behavioral, physiological, and verbal responses in preschoolers.

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Negative HIV-specific expectancies and AIDS-related bereavement as predictors of symptom onset in asymptomatic HIV-positive gay men.

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Explanatory style and cell-mediated immunity in elderly men and women.

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Explanatory style and cell-mediated immunity in elderly men and women.

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Effects of Coping on Blood Pressure Responses to Threat of Aversive Stimulation

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Host moderator variables in the promotion of cervical neoplasia—I. Personality facets

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Stress and Isolation From Close Ties in Later Life

1991 • 103 citations

Network range in personal networks

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Residential density and psychological health: The mediating effects of social support.

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Negative HIV-specific expectancies and AIDS-related bereavement as predictors of symptom onset in asymptomatic HIV-positive gay men.

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Residential density and psychological health: The mediating effects of social support.

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The roles of constructive thinking and optimism in psychological and behavioral adjustment during pregnancy.

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Stressful Personal Relationships: Immune and Endocrine Function

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Social Hassles and Psychological Health in the Context of Chronic Crowding

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Psychosocial aspects of chronic illness.

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Relationship of child sexual abuse to depression

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Specifying dysfunctional mismatches between different control dimensions

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Cognitive Control Factors in Vascular Stress Responses

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Distinguishing family-level and child-level influences on the development of depression and aggression in children at risk

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Relinquishment of control and the Type A behavior pattern.

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Traumatic child death and documented maltreatment history, Los Angeles.

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Role of Control and Social Support in Explaining the Stress of Hassles and Crowding

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Preference for control and the coronary-prone behavior pattern: "I'd rather do it myself."

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Daily hassles and chronic strains: A hierarchy of stressors?

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Psychoneuroimmunology and male infertility: A possible link between stress, coping and male immunological infertility

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