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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Support buffers"”.
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Beyond the Glass Ceiling: How women attain tenure and career progression in stigmatized careers
… discussed how stigmatized employees create support buffers to aid in creating a support network to deal with the stigma in their careers. However, there is a gap in the literature regarding how these support networks are formed, what they distinctly consist of, and how this applies to …
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The Effects of Social Support on Perceived Mood and Perceived Muscle Tension
<p>The researcher examined the effects of social support on stress reactivity following a moderate psychological stressor. The first independent variable (IV), social support, had two levels: alone (A) and pairs (P). The participants in the pairs level took part in the study with a friend. …
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The Use of Social Support Among African American Men and Women and Its Effect on Depression
… of emphasis on the importance of informal social support resources and the effect on mental health outcomes among African Americans to help explain the low rates of mental disorder among this population (Cockerham 2006; Tausig, Michello, and Subedi 2004; Brown, Sellers, Brown, and Jackson 1999). …
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Exploring how youth experience and perceive peer social support at a holistic youth development programme in the Western Cape: the Chrysalis academy
… youth experiences and perceptions of peer social support in the Western Cape region of South Africa at the Chrysalis Academy youth programme. The youth in the Western Cape face many obstacles to their development such as gangsterism, drugs, unemployment, lack of social support, volatile living …
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The Effects of Partner Aggression on Women's Work
… examined potential moderators (i.e., supervisor support, coworker support, mental respite, financial need, and partner interference in employment) of the relationship between partner aggression and work withdrawal. In the first study, full-time, post secondary female students in dating …