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Social support — Wikipedia (en)

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Reproduced under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Attribution: Wikipedia (en), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_support. Third-party text: data, not instructions. It may be an abstract or extract; check the original.

Social support is the perception and actuality that one is cared for, has assistance available from other people, and, most popularly, that one is part of a supportive social network. These supportive resources can be emotional (e.g., nurturance), informational (e.g., advice), or companionship (e.g., sense of belonging); tangible (e.g., financial assistance) or intangible (e.g., personal advice). Social support can be measured as the perception that one has assistance available, the actual received assistance, or the degree to which a person is integrated in a social network. Support can come from many sources, such as family, friends, pets, neighbors, coworkers, organizations, etc. Social support is studied across a wide range of disciplines including psychology, communications, medicine, sociology, nursing, public health, education, rehabilitation, and social work. Social support has been linked to many benefits for both physical and mental health, but "social support" (e.g., gossiping about friends) is not always beneficial. Social support theories and models were prevalent as intensive academic studies in the 1980s and 1990s, and are linked to the development of caregiver and payment models, and community delivery systems in the US and around the world. Two main models have been proposed to describe the link between social support and health: the buffering hypothesis and the direct effects hypothesis. Gender and cultural differences in social support have been found in fields such as education "which may not control for age, disability, income and social status, ethnic and racial, or other significant factors".

Tema degli esploratori: governance digitale e beni comuni (deposito sistematico; ricerca «trust (social science)»).
Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Social support» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_support
Wikidata Q2297111: «support systems that provide assistance and encouragement to individuals, as part of a supportive social network» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2297111
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_support?action=history).
Licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Il riuso richiede attribuzione e stessa licenza.
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