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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"support-seeking"”.
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Examining Social Support Seeking Online
… settings demonstrates the importance of social support to increase physical and mental well-being. However, the process of seeking social support is less well-understood than its outcomes. Specifically, research examining how people seek social support in natural settings is scarce. One natural …
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Realising Value: Study-Related Support-Seeking Experiences
… disabilities realise value through study-related support-seeking experiences. Sixteen students with disabilities, who were enrolled in higher educational services in New Zealand, participated in this study. A phenomenographic approach was applied to understand the variations in ways that students …
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Sexual Assault, Perceived Stigma, and Christian Fundamentalism: Understanding Support Seeking Among Victims.
… consequences, yet many victims do not seek support. The present study investigates this lack of support seeking in the context of stigma. It is hypothesized that sexual assault victims who perceive themselves as stigmatized (due to their status as a sexual assault victim) will be less likely …
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Social Support Seeking Processes in Japan and the United States: A Multi-layered Approach
… familial, and individual differences in social support seeking processes between Japan and the United States by applying face negotiation theory (FNT). The application of FNT contributed to understanding social support seeking processes by utilizing such concepts as national cultures, and …
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A qualitative examination of safety needs and support-seeking in online social platform engagement after pregnancy loss
… up about their loss experiences, and to feel supported by their personal and professional networks. As past literature has identified online support communities as environments where specific populations can come together to exchange support among those with shared experiences, this indicates …
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Patterns and Outcomes of Bereavement Support-Seeking Among Older Adults with Complicated Grief and Bereavement-Related Depression
… aims to enhance knowledge about bereavement support-seeking among older adults with Complicated Grief (CG) and/or depression and to examine the outcomes of support received. This three-paper dissertation uses data from two studies of bereaved older adults: the Changing Lives of Older Couples …
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The Role of Social Support Seeking and Social Constraints on Psychological Outcomes After Trauma: A Social Cognitive Theory Perspective
… these factors and psychological outcomes. Social support seeking was conceptualized as both a coping strategy (situational) and as a coping style (dispositional) and was hypothesized to predict greater growth outcomes, while social constraints were hypothesized to predict higher levels of …
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An Examination of the Moderating Effect of Proactive Coping in NICU Nurses
… and burnout in nurses. Problem solving and support seeking coping strategies have been shown to be associated with lower levels of burnout and increased patient and job satisfaction in general staff nurses. Multiple linear regression and a hierarchical stepwise technique was used to conduct …
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A longitudinal investigation of coping and life satisfaction in adolescents.
… relationships between adolescent coping (social support seeking, self-reliance/problem solving, distancing, internalizing, and externalizing), global life satisfaction (GLS), and friend satisfaction (FR LS). A total of 1011 students in grades 7-8 at a southeastern middle school completed the …
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Seeking the Support That We Want: Goal Matching in Social Support Outcomes and Supporter Selection
Past support-seeking research has examined under what circumstances social support is most effective. Optimal matching theory posits that a match between type and amount of support provided yields the best support outcomes. One hundred and twenty undergraduate students completed an intake survey …
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Health-Related Quality of Life in Children with Type 1 Diabetes: The Role of Family Environment, Parental Perceived Social Support, and Children's Coping
… and the relation of parental perceived social support and children’s health-related quality of life in children aged 8-16 with Type 1 diabetes. Age was also proposed to be a moderator in the relation of children’s coping to their health-related quality of life. Children aged 8 to 16 and their …
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Coping styles of African American youth living in poverty: Understanding the role of coping in resiliency
… more Avoidant, Active and Problem-Focused Social Support Seeking than other strategies. Additionally, the low-use coping group showed almost absent use of all types of Social Support Seeking and limited use of Avoidant and Distraction strategies. Coping groups did not differ based on risk …
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Family experiences of parental mental illness in Northern Ireland: a social phenomenological study
… Impact of PMI on Parenting Capacity and Support seeking and service use. Significant insights were gained including the impact of ‘the Troubles’ on the parents and their mental health as well as the transgenerational impact on children in the sample. The analysis revealed that families …
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COPING WITH MOTHERHOOD: THE ROLE OF MOBILE PHONES FOR FIRST TIME MOTHERS IN SINGAPORE
… strategies of distraction, problem solving, support seeking, avoidance and cognitive restructuring, as its main framework for analysis. Through this study, four out of five of the coping strategies by Skinner and colleagues (2003) were shown to have more functional and constructive elements, …
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What Predicts Support Selection: Examining Personality and Gender
… exists which examines whether people seek support in general and how they seek support from specific others, little research exists on how people seek support from among the many members of their social network when they're in need. Two novel aspects of support-seeking arise when one …
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Relational Spirituality and Maternal Coping in Carceral Contexts: A Participatory Action Study of Meaning-Making and Mental Health Among Formerly Incarcerated Mothers
… with relational, peer-based, and spiritual supports, particularly sisterhoods formed with other incarcerated mothers, emerging as central. These relationships enabled shared emotional processing, fostering endurance and resilience rather than symptom resolution. Participants also emphasized …
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A Comparison of Coping Responses to Stress Among Counselor Education Students at the Beginning Stage, Practicum Stage, and Graduating Stage from their Program of Studies
… active coping, planning, restraint coping, seeking instrumental social support, seeking emotional support, religious coping, denial, and behavioral disengagement.
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Investigating self-compassion and meaning in life as facilitators of chronic disease management
… overarching salutogenic factors that may support multidimensional behavioral engagement in management of one's health when faced with chronic disease. Both experiencing life as meaningful and acting with compassion toward oneself have been linked to attitudinal, motivational, and …
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CUSTOMERS' EMOTIONAL AND COPING RESPONSES TO SERVICE FAILURES: THE ROLE OF SELF-CONGRUENCE
… (problem-solving vs. vindictive complaining and support-seeking vs. vindictive negative word of mouth) and behavioral intentions are also explored. Through two experiments, this dissertation provides support for the proposition that different forms of self-congruence evoke different sets of …
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The Mental Health Of Athletes: Channeling Frustration, Aggression, Internal/External Behaviors In The Real World To Improve Performance
… through self-regulation, reflective release, and support seeking, although some strategies were avoidant or harmful; (e) externalizing behaviors were experienced as visible anger, open emotional discharge, and, for some athletes, substance-related or risk-oriented coping; and (f) externalizing …
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