Conceptual, Methodological, and Theoretical Problems in Studying Social Support as a Buffer Against Life Stress

The social readjustment rating scale

1967 • 10,950 citations

Social Support as a Moderator of Life Stress

1976 • 6,562 citations

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

1979 • 5,087 citations

The stress process.

1981 • 5,043 citations

Human Nature and the Social Order

2017 • 4,972 citations

Work Stress and Social Support.

1983 • 4,823 citations

Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

1976 • 4,071 citations

Social Origins of Depression: A Study of Psychiatric Disorder in Women.

1980 • 3,116 citations

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

1995 • 1,996 citations

Stressful Life Events: Their Nature and Effects.

1976 • 1,427 citations

Live Events, Stress, and Illness

1976 • 1,325 citations

Exemplification of a Method for Scaling Life Events: The PERI Life Events Scale

1978 • 1,204 citations

Americans View Their Mental Health, 1957

1984 • 1,137 citations

Social Support, Occupational Stress, and Health

1980 • 1,051 citations

MENTAL DISORDERS IN URBAN AREAS

1939 • 963 citations

The Concept and Use of Social Networks

1969 • 872 citations

Social Support, Stressful Life Events, and Illness: A Model and an Empirical Test

1979 • 854 citations

Social Support and Health

1977 • 837 citations

Support Systems and Community Mental Health

1975 • 835 citations

THE STRESS-BUFFERING ROLE OF SOCIAL SUPPORT

1977 • 812 citations

PSYCHOSOCIAL ASSETS, LIFE CRISIS AND THE PROGNOSIS OF PREGNANCY12

1972 • 809 citations

Social Class and Psychiatric Disturbance among Women in an Urban Population

1975 • 771 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

Crises and Life Changes and the Onset of Schizophrenia

1968 • 685 citations

Social Support as a Contingency in Psychological Well-Being

1981 • 606 citations

LIFE EVENT STRESS, SOCIAL SUPPORT, COPING STYLE, AND RISK OF PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPAIRMENT

1978 • 466 citations

Desirable versus undesirable life events: Their relationship to stress and mental distress.

1975 • 443 citations

Social Networks, Health Beliefs, and Preventive Health Behavior

1977 • 369 citations

Social support networks and the crisis of bereavement

1977 • 329 citations

Social Status and Psychological Disorder.

1970 • 317 citations

Friends, confidants and symptoms

1976 • 314 citations

A Comparison of Life-Event-Weighting Schemes: Change, Undesirability, and Effect-Proportional Indices

1979 • 300 citations

Life Events, Social Supports, and Psychiatric Symptoms: A Re-Analysis of the New Haven Data

1978 • 297 citations

The Social Network, Support and Neurosis

1977 • 292 citations

Marital Status and Depression: The Importance of Coping Resources

1982 • 288 citations

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

1978 • 274 citations

Life stress, social support, and psychological vulnerability: Epidemiological considerations

1982 • 259 citations

Crises and Life Changes preceding the Onset or Relapse of Acute Schizophrenia: Clinical Aspects

1970 • 255 citations

Social Bonds in the Epidemiology of Neurosis: A Preliminary Communication

1978 • 224 citations

Life Events, Social Integration and Psychiatric Symptomatology

1975 • 222 citations

Paranoia and the Dynamics of Exclusion

1962 • 220 citations

Life Events and Mental Status: A Longitudinal Study

1972 • 210 citations

Social networks: A promising direction for research on the relationship of the social environment to psychiatric disorder

1980 • 210 citations

The Patient's Primary Group

1978 • 202 citations

LIFE EVENTS AND PSYCHIATRIC IMPAIRMENT

1971 • 199 citations

Stressful Life Events and Psychiatric Symptomatology: Change or Undesirability?

1977 • 196 citations

Networks and Places

1977 • 179 citations

Social Support, Social Networks, and Schizophrenia

1981 • 177 citations

Vulnerability Factors and Depression in Men

1981 • 161 citations

Magnitude estimations of social readjustments

1967 • 153 citations

Social class, life events, and psychiatric symptoms: A longitudinal study.

1974 • 148 citations

Methodological Issues in Developing a Scale to Measure Social Support

1981 • 139 citations

The effect of exposure to culture change, social change, and changes in interpersonal relationships on health.

1974 • 136 citations

Life change, coping ability and chronic intrinsic asthma

1973 • 135 citations

Illness, Immunity, and Social Interaction.

1974 • 102 citations

Conceptual and methodological problems in the study of resistance resources and stressful life events.

1974 • 96 citations

Psychiatric disorder in London and North Uist

1977 • 83 citations

Problems in the Ratio Measurement of Life Stress

1976 • 64 citations

Social aspects of coronary heart disease in two adjacent, ethnically different communities.

1966 • 59 citations

Self-Disclosure, Significant Others and Psychological Well-Being in Old Age

1973 • 47 citations

Occupational Stress and Health

1979 • 29 citations

The Yorklea study of urban mental health: symptoms, problems and life events.

1969 • 13 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations