Social Support, Stressful Life Events, and Illness: A Model and an Empirical Test
1979/06/01 by Nan Lin, Walter M. Ensel, Ronald S. Simeone +2 · 911 citations
Medicine · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Clinical psychology #Developmental psychology #Empirical research #Gerontology #Health disparities and outcomes #Medicine #Optimism, Hope, and Well-being #Psychology #Resilience and Mental Health #Social psychology #Social support #Test (biology)
paper · doi:10.2307/2136433
published in Journal of Health and Social Behavior 20(2), 108 (SAGE Publishing)
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Abstract
Nan Lin, Walter M. Ensel, Ronald S. Simeone, Wen Kuo, Social Support, Stressful Life Events, and Illness: A Model and an Empirical Test, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Jun., 1979), pp. 108-119
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