Social Support and Depressive Symptoms in the Elderly

The CES-D Scale

1977 • 50,186 citations

Social Support and Health.

1986 • 3,994 citations

Assessing social support: The Social Support Questionnaire.

1983 • 2,779 citations

Distinctions between social support concepts, measures, and models

1986 • 2,406 citations

The social origins of depression

1979 • 2,215 citations

Measuring the Functional Components of Social Support

1985 • 2,126 citations

An Epidemiology of Disability among Adults in the United States

1976 • 1,431 citations

The health-related functions of social support

1981 • 1,282 citations

A Guttman Health Scale for the Aged

1966 • 1,114 citations

The provisions of social relationships

1974 • 1,060 citations

SOCIAL SUPPORT AND MORTALITY IN AN ELDERLY COMMUNITY POPULATION1

1982 • 1,016 citations

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

1986 • 816 citations

Social Support and the Outcome of Major Depression

1989 • 743 citations

Neurosis and the Social Environment

1982 • 741 citations

Social support measurement

1985 • 707 citations

The Prognosis of Depression in Old Age

1983 • 616 citations

Measuring social relationships The Interview Schedule for Social Interaction

1980 • 553 citations

Physical Disability and Depression: A Longitudinal Analysis

1988 • 534 citations

Structural characteristics of social networks and their relationship with social support in the elderly: Who provides support

1988 • 487 citations

Social support in the adjustment of pregnant adolescents. Assessment issues

1981 • 470 citations

Long-term adjustment to physical disability: The role of social support, perceived control, and self-blame.

1985 • 458 citations

Social Origins of Depression in Old Age

1982 • 422 citations

Social support networks and the crisis of bereavement

1977 • 329 citations

The Social Network, Support and Neurosis

1977 • 292 citations

Social Support: The Search for Theory

1990 • 275 citations

Component social support processes: Comments and integration.

1986 • 266 citations

The buffer theory of social support – a review of the literature

1987 • 262 citations

Behavioral manifestations of social support: A microanalytic investigation.

1986 • 207 citations

Help-seeking behaviour of depressed students

1984 • 46 citations

The relationship of social support to psychological adjustment in end-stage renal disease patients

1987 • 44 citations

Social Support and Well-Being: Preliminary Indicators Based on Two Samples of the Elderly

1986 • 41 citations

Assessment of Social Relationships in Elderly Patients

1990 • 36 citations

Psychosocial Factors and Depressive Symptoms

1986 • 21 citations

The availability of confiding persons for depressed patients

1984 • 13 citations

Applying social psychology to the aging process: Four examples.

2004 • 13 citations