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Social Support as a Moderator of Life Stress

1976 • 6,562 citations

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

1976 • 5,608 citations

SOCIAL NETWORKS, HOST RESISTANCE, AND MORTALITY: A NINE-YEAR FOLLOW-UP STUDY OF ALAMEDA COUNTY RESIDENTS

1979 • 5,087 citations

Social Support and Health.

1986 • 3,994 citations

THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT TO HOST RESISTANCE: THE FOURTH WADE HAMPTON FROST LECTURE1

1995 • 1,996 citations

THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT TO HOST RESISTANCE1

1976 • 1,731 citations

The effects of specific medical conditions on the functional limitations of elders in the Framingham Study.

1994 • 1,576 citations

Psychosocial models of the role of social support in the etiology of physical disease.

1988 • 1,386 citations

Perceived Support, Received Support, and Adjustment to Stressful Life Events

1986 • 1,371 citations

DEPRESSED LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION AFTER BEREAVEMENT

1977 • 949 citations

Self-reports and general practitioner information on the presence of chronic diseases in community dwelling elderly

1996 • 926 citations

THE EPIDEMIOLOGIC EVIDENCE FOR A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL SUPPORT AND HEALTH

1983 • 923 citations

DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS IN RELATION TO PHYSICAL HEALTH AND FUNCTIONING IN THE ELDERLY

1986 • 816 citations

Social support, self-esteem and depression

1986 • 699 citations

Issues in the study and application of social support.

1985 • 688 citations

The Association of Age and Depression Among the Elderly: An Epidemiologic Exploration

1991 • 687 citations

Maintaining Mobility in Late Life. I. Demographic Characteristics and Chronic Conditions

1993 • 574 citations

Comorbidity and Its Impact on Disability

1989 • 428 citations

Chronic Conditions That Lead to Functional Limitation in the Elderly

1994 • 405 citations

Stress and Depression

1982 • 398 citations

Depression and Physical Illness: A Multiwave, Nonrecursive Causal Model

1984 • 382 citations

Social Support and Depressive Symptoms in the Elderly

1992 • 379 citations

Living Arrangements and Social Networks of Older Adults

1996 • 296 citations

Social networks and coronary artery disease: a comparison of the structure and function of social relations as predictors of disease.

1987 • 281 citations

Effects of social relationships on survival for women with breast cancer: A prospective study

1991 • 261 citations

Streptococcal infections in families. Factors altering individual susceptibility.

1962 • 255 citations

SOCIAL NETWORK AND SOCIAL SUPPORT INFLUENCE MORTALITY IN ELDERLY MEN

1989 • 239 citations

STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS IN FAMILIES

1962 • 228 citations

Extending Families: The Social Networks of Parents and their Children.

1991 • 218 citations

Tijdschrift voor sociale gezondheidszorg

1983 • 181 citations

Extending families: the social networks of parents and their children

1991 • 177 citations

Levels of Disability Among U.S. Adults With Arthritis

1991 • 175 citations

The Health Impact of Living With a Cognitively Impaired Elderly Spouse: Depressive Symptoms and Social Functioning

1989 • 162 citations

Marital Status, Social Support, and Health Transitions in Chronic Disease Patients

1990 • 161 citations

Autonomy and well-being in the aging population: Concepts and design of the longitudinal aging study Amsterdam

1995 • 146 citations

Social relationships and psychological well-being in rheumatoid arthritis

1988 • 145 citations

Family's impact on health: A critical review.

1986 • 145 citations

The association of physical health and depressive symptoms in the older population: age and sex differences

1995 • 142 citations

Psychosocial correlates of cancer survival: a subsequent report 3 to 8 years after cancer diagnosis.

1988 • 127 citations

The Relationship between the Perception of Social Support and Post-Stroke Depression in Hospitalized Patients

1991 • 114 citations

Social support, stress and functional status in patients with osteoarthritis

1990 • 106 citations

Social support and psychosocial dysfunction after stroke: buffering effects in a community sample.

1987 • 96 citations

DELINEATION OF THE SOCIAL NETWORK AND DIFFERENCES IN NETWORK SIZE

1995 • 83 citations

The burden of chronic diseases in terms of disability, use of health care and healthy life expectancies

1995 • 79 citations

Social support through the life course.

1985 • 76 citations

Family illness paradigms: Evolution and significance.

1987 • 76 citations

Psychological Factors Affecting Physical Condition

1992 • 65 citations

Predicting Long-term Outcome among Post-rehabilitation Stroke Patients

1988 • 54 citations

The negative relating of depressed patients: A new approach

1992 • 44 citations

Family Functioning in Late Late Life

1992 • 44 citations

Measurement issues in research on social support and health.

1994 • 32 citations

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

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New thinking and science on disability in mid- and late life

1995 • 23 citations

A criterion-based literature survey of the relationship between family support and incidence and course of chronic disease in the elderly.

1995 • 13 citations

Life Events, Vulnerability and Illness: A Selected Review

1989 • 11 citations

Social stressors, social supports, and self-esteem as predictors of morbidity in adults with chronic lung disease.

1991 • 11 citations