Social support and physical health.

Understanding Attitudes and Predicting Social Behavior

1980 • 25,812 citations

Social Support as a Moderator of Life Stress

1976 • 6,562 citations

Helplessness: On Depression, Development, and Death

1975 • 6,201 citations

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

1979 • 5,087 citations

Work Stress and Social Support.

1983 • 4,823 citations

The revised UCLA Loneliness Scale: Concurrent and discriminant validity evidence.

1980 • 3,468 citations

Assessing social support: The Social Support Questionnaire.

1983 • 2,779 citations

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

1995 • 1,996 citations

Developing a Measure of Loneliness

1978 • 1,771 citations

THE ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS AND ACTIVITIES WITH MORTALITY: PROSPECTIVE EVIDENCE FROM THE TECUMSEH COMMUNITY HEALTH STUDY

1982 • 1,406 citations

The health-related functions of social support

1981 • 1,282 citations

Reduction of Postoperative Pain by Encouragement and Instruction of Patients

1964 • 1,115 citations

Social Support, Occupational Stress, and Health

1980 • 1,051 citations

SOCIAL SUPPORT AND MORTALITY IN AN ELDERLY COMMUNITY POPULATION1

1982 • 1,016 citations

Social Support and Health

1977 • 837 citations

THE STRESS-BUFFERING ROLE OF SOCIAL SUPPORT

1977 • 812 citations

PSYCHOSOCIAL ASSETS, LIFE CRISIS AND THE PROGNOSIS OF PREGNANCY12

1972 • 809 citations

The Effect of Social Support in Moderating the Health Consequences of Unemployment

1978 • 769 citations

Interaction and Adaptation: Intimacy as a Critical Variable

1968 • 691 citations

Conceptualization and Measurement of Health for Adults in the Health Insurance Study

1978 • 645 citations

Psychosocial Processes and “Stress”: Theoretical Formulation

1974 • 535 citations

Effects of control and predictability on the physical and psychological well-being of the institutionalized aged.

1976 • 437 citations

Social Networks, Health Beliefs, and Preventive Health Behavior

1977 • 369 citations

Client Control and Medical Practice

1960 • 359 citations

Preventive Intervention With the Recently Bereaved

1977 • 343 citations

Social support networks and the crisis of bereavement

1977 • 329 citations

Friends, confidants and symptoms

1976 • 314 citations

Task force report: Social networks as mediators of social support

1980 • 311 citations

Effects of accurate expectations and behavioral instructions on reactions during a noxious medical examination.

1974 • 309 citations

Social Patterns of Illness and Medical Care

1965 • 289 citations

Angina pectoris among 10,000 men

1976 • 286 citations

Social Networks, Lay Consultation and Help-Seeking Behavior

1973 • 275 citations

Social Class and Mental Illness Reconsidered: The Role of Economic Stress and Social Support

1978 • 274 citations

Sex differences in social participation.

1977 • 271 citations

Drug Defaulting in a General Practice

1969 • 263 citations

Co-worker and leader support as moderators of stress-strain relationships in work situations.

1978 • 260 citations

Factors Affecting the Outcome of Conjugal Bereavement

1967 • 254 citations

A psychosocial kinship model for family therapy

1975 • 247 citations

Some epidemiologic aspects of the high mortality rate in the young widowed group

1959 • 244 citations

Life Events, Social Integration and Psychiatric Symptomatology

1975 • 222 citations

A controlled study of self-help intervention for widows

1980 • 218 citations

Acute Myocardial Infarction: Home and Hospital Treatment

1971 • 209 citations

The dropout problem in antihypertensive treatment

1970 • 204 citations

Family Support Systems for the Aged Some Social and Demographic Considerations

1977 • 198 citations

An epidemiological perspective of psychosocial factors in disease etiology.

1974 • 192 citations

Detection and Treatment of Hypertension at the Work Site

1975 • 177 citations

Effects of brief psychotherapy during the hospitalization period on the recovery process in heart attacks.

1975 • 139 citations

Psychosocial Analysis of Cancer Deaths

1975 • 137 citations

Life change, coping ability and chronic intrinsic asthma

1973 • 135 citations

Physiologic changes in men whose jobs were abolished

1974 • 135 citations

Social Support Scales: A Methodological Note

1981 • 133 citations

ECOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ILLNESS, LIFE EXPERIENCES AND THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT

1958 • 121 citations

Environmental Resources and the Posttreatment Functioning of Alcoholic Patients

1977 • 119 citations

A Re-Examination of Suchman's Views on Social Factors in Health Care Utilization

1975 • 114 citations

Correlates of adolescent life stress as related to race, ses, and levels of perceived social support

1980 • 114 citations

Social networks as coping resources

1976 • 109 citations

Socioecologic stress and hypertension related mortality rates in North Carolina.

1976 • 106 citations

Social support and adaptation to chronic illness: The case of maintenance hemodialysis

1979 • 104 citations

The role of social experience in the production of gastric ulcers in hooded rats placed in a conflict situation.

1958 • 103 citations

Life Stress, Illness and Social Supports*

1980 • 102 citations

Vocational adjustment after first myocardial infarction; Comparative assessment of several variables suggested in the literature

1973 • 102 citations

Social support and social adjustment: Implications for mental health professionals

1979 • 98 citations

Transfer from a coronary care unit. Some adverse responses.

1968 • 94 citations

Undesirable life events and psychophysiological distress: a problem of operational confounding.

1981 • 94 citations

Social support in crisis: Quantity or quality?

1979 • 92 citations

Family structure in relation to health and disease

1960 • 90 citations

Supportive Networks: Life Ties for the Elderly

1980 • 88 citations

Psychosocial Modifiers of Response to Stress

1979 • 87 citations

The effect of husband participation on reported pain and probability of medication during labor and birth

1975 • 85 citations

Adhering to medical regimens: Pilot experiments in patient education and social support

1980 • 80 citations

The effects of family involvement and practitioner home visits on the control of hypertension.

1982 • 79 citations

Research and Demonstration Issues in Self-Care: Measuring the Decline of Medicocentrism

1977 • 78 citations

Lay influences on the utilization and provision of health services: A review.

1976 • 75 citations

The determination of rate of progress of stroke patients through empathy measures of patient and family

1968 • 72 citations

Productivity after injury in a sample of spinal cord injured persons: A pilot study

1971 • 71 citations

Family expectations and arthritis patient compliance to a hand resting splint regimen

1970 • 71 citations

The measurement of social support and its relation to stress.

1979 • 67 citations

Managing the Stress of Aging: The Role of Control and Coping

1980 • 65 citations

SOCIAL DISORGANIZATION AND STROKE MORTALITY IN THE BLACK POPULATION OF NORTH CAROLINA1

1971 • 64 citations

A CLINICAL GUIDE TO PROGNOSIS IN STRESS DISEASES

1952 • 64 citations

Reactance, Attribution, Equity, and the Help Recipient¹

1979 • 58 citations

Medical recommendations--followed or ignored? Factors influencing compliance in arthritis.

1976 • 57 citations

Applications of Social Support Theory to Health Education: Implications for Work with the Elderly

1981 • 54 citations

A Comparison of Family Networks and Friend Networks In Health Care Utilization

1973 • 54 citations

Seeking Health Care from New Resources

1972 • 51 citations

The family and physical rehabilitation

1966 • 42 citations

Social support groups among new parents: An experimental study in primary prevention

1979 • 37 citations

THE EFFECTS OF HUMAN CONTACT ON CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA IN CORONARY CARE PATIENTS

1974 • 37 citations

Social support in health and illness

1978 • 33 citations

Social aspects of coronary heart disease in a Pennsylvania German community

1968 • 32 citations

Factors influencing the return to work of men with congestive heart failure

1966 • 29 citations

A new proxy measure for health status.

1969 • 29 citations

The Influence of Self Conception and Life Orientation Factors in the Rehabilitation of the Orthopedically Disabled

1962 • 25 citations

Untrained community help in the rehabilitation of stroke sufferers with language disorder.

1978 • 23 citations

Broad-spectrum behavioral approach to smoking cessation: Effects of social support and paraprofessional training on the maintenance of treatment effects.

1979 • 21 citations

An epidemiological study of myocardial infarctions in an ItaliandashAmerican community

1965 • 21 citations

The Determinants of Dropping Out of Care Among Hypertensive Patients Receiving a Behavioral Intervention

1983 • 21 citations

The intrafamilial transmission of rheumatoid arthritis—VII

1969 • 15 citations

The Aged American Female: Relationships Between Social Support and Health

1980 • 11 citations

Community status of discharged rehabilitation patients: Results of a longitudinal study.

1966 • 9 citations

Factors associated with dropping out of family planning clinics in Jamaica.

1973 • 8 citations

SOCIAL FACTORS INFLUENCING THE DECISION OF SEVERELY DISABLED OLDER PERSONS TO PARTICIPATE IN A REHABILITATION PROGRAM.

1964 • 7 citations

Towards a method for assessing social support systems.

1977 • 7 citations

The Jamaican family planning programme: clinic services and social support as factors in dropping out.

1977 • 3 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations