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Development of a Social Support Scale for Health Behaviors in College Students
… Therefore, research must determine the psychosocial factors that are likely to influence young people in their efforts to manage their weight and health. Social support may be such a mechanism; a study by Strong and colleagues (2008) demonstrated that social support was influential in college …
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Modeling Social Participation as Predictive of Life Satisfaction and Social Support: Scale or Index?
<p>Social participation in late adulthood through activities such as volunteering with charities, playing sports, and joining clubs can increase life satisfaction, directly by providing enjoyable engagement and indirectly by increasing a person's sense of social connectedness. When reported levels …
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Effects of Social Support on the Social Self-Concepts of Gifted Adolescents
… study investigates the relationship between social support and the social self-concepts of gifted adolescents. Participants include 245 gifted students who had completed the fifth through the tenth grade during the previous academic year. Social self-concept was measured using the …
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Quality of Life Three Months After Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: Effects of Presurgical Physical Fitness
… confounding influences on HRQL; the MOS Social Support Scale; Beck Depression Inventory; Health Complaints Scale; the Life Orientation Test for optimism/pessimism. In all, 45 men and 10 women, were evaluated just prior to and 3 mo following CABG. Two of the eight subscales of the MOS …
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Pregnancy Loss: Disenfranchised Grief and Other Psychological Reactions
… several measures including the Perinatal Grief Scale (PGS), the Hogan Grief reaction Checklist (HGRC), the Perceived Social Support Scale (PSS), and the Inventory of Social Support (ISS). The participants also wrote a narrative account of their loss experience. These narratives were content …
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Psychosocial predictors of quality of life post myocardial Infarction: A prospective cohort study in Pakistan
… The current study examined the psychosocial predictors (Type D personality, anxiety, depression & social support) in patients following MI. It further assessed the influence of these psychosocial predictors on quality of life of MI patients. Methods: In this prospective cohort study, …
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Developmental outcome in preschoolers: Interrelations among maternal depression, perceived social support, and child's age of entry into Head Start
… depressive symptomology and child cognitive and social outcome. In addition, the mediating role of maternal social support was examined. The study sample included 43 low-income mothers and their pre-school aged children who were enrolled in a large Head Start program in Southwest Virginia. …
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A study of the social support construct with a group of cancer patients
… methods, instruments, and processes of studying social support (Cohen, Underwood, & Gottlieb, 2000) and many definitions of the construct (Hupcey, 1998). Along with the increased interest in the social factors that influence psychological and physical health (Cohen & Syme, 1985), the diverse ways …
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The relationship between exposure to community violence, social support, parenting attitudes and child behavioural adjustment
… violence, household demographic characteristics, social support , parenting attitudes and child/adolescent behavioural adjustment. Participants were drawn from two economically disadvantaged, high-violence neighbourhoods in the Western Cape. The total sample comprised 305 children aged between 9 …
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Perceptions of social support among male and female students with specific learning disabilities and in general education
… the significant relationship between perceived social support and resiliency in children and adolescents without disabilities, but less is known about the perceptions of social support among youth with disabilities. Available research suggests that students with disabilities report lower levels …
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Hubungan dukungan sosial orangtua dengan prokrastinasi akademik dalam mengerjakan tugas sekolah pada siswa SMA PGRI KOTA BATU
… rendah maka prokrastinasi tinggi. ENGLISH: Social support of parents is one of the important elements received by the child because the child support received will feel close to their parents and the relationship between the two would be better. Procrastination is a habit of delaying the …
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Depressive Symptomatology and Perceived Social Support in Adolescents with Type 2 Diabetes
… outcomes in the presence of higher levels of social support. Defining childhood depression, which encompasses adolescence, and the subtleties of this disorder compared to the adult counterpart, was needed to better delineate important variables for this research study. There are several …
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The Impact of Guided Imagery on Sleep Quality in Mothers of Preterm Infants
… between depression, anxiety, stress, social support, to sleep quality, and describe the influence of a R-GI intervention on sleep quality among a sample of mothers whose preterm babies were admitted to NICU. Methods: This prospective, descriptive, secondary data analysis study which …
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Domestic Work as Decent Work: An Empirical Test of the Predictors of Decent Work To Extend the Psychology of Working Theory
… of decent work, in the PWT, could be empirically supported. Domestic workers, in Cape Town and Johannesburg, participated in a self-report survey (N = 139), which consisted of several measures. These participants were accessed through a variety of convenience and snowball sampling techniques. As …
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The relationship between perceived social support and egocentrism among older adolescents
… examines the relationship between perceived social support and egocentrism among older adolescents. Chapter I defines the research concern. If social support plays a significant role in the life of the adolescent, but egocentrism often alters the judgment and behavior of adolescents in a …
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Is there a relationship between pre-natal exercise and postpartum depression
… demographic questionnaire, the Perceived Stress Scale and the Norbeck Social Support Scale to complete while in the hospital in the days immediately following childbirth. At six weeks postpartum, the women completed the Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale, a scale specifically developed to …
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Self-concept in Adolescents: The Role of Ethnicity and Contextual Variables in the Manifestation of Depression
… form, the Reynold's Adolescent Depression Scale (RADS), the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC), the Harter Self-Perception Profile for Adolescents (SPPA), an Ethnic Evaluations instrument, the Acculturation Scale, the Dubow Social Support Scale for Adolescents, the How I …
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Quality of life and illness perception in stroke patients : a 12 month study
… al., 1992), the Stroke Specific Quality of Life Scale (SSQOL, Williams, et al, 1999), The Single Item Self-Esteem Scale (SISE, Robins, Hendin & Trzesniewski, 2001), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS, Zigmond & Snaith, 1983), The Recovery Locus of Control (RLOC, Partridge & Johnston, …
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A Comparative Effectiveness Study of the Trauma Recovery Empowerment Model (TREM) and an Attachment-Informed Variation of TREM
… improvement in attachment security, perceived social support, emotion regulation, substance use, depression, anxiety, and PTSD symptoms than TREM. Methods: Sixty-nine women completed the group interventions (n = 37 ATREM; n = 32 TREM), along with pre- and-post-test questionnaires. The …
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Specific domains of self-esteem in adolescents : Differences between suicide ideated, depressed and non-depressed samples
… perception Profile for Adolescents (1988) and Social Support Scale for Children (1985) are explored in this study, comparing three different groups of older adolescents. The purposive sample included 78 participants aged 16 to 18 years, including 53 from the general population, 33 non-depressed …
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