Social support, residual adversity and depressive outcome
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric EpidemiologyPublished 1 January 1980
P. G. Surtees
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Abstract
Investigators of the relationship between life stress and illness onset have been criticised for paying too little attention to factors which may protect individuals from the adverse consequences of stress. A major factor neglected in this regard has been social support. The present study investigates the relationship between social support, residual adversity and symptom severity in patients seven months after onset of a depressive illness. The results, whilst possibly lacking causal significance, suggested that the presence of social support conferred partial immunity against the recurrence of symptoms in individuals suffering a high level of residual adversity. Confiding relationships with reciprocity between confidant and patient concerning their personal affairs had the greatest protective qualities.
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