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From:Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand (Vol. 19, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedNZNO AND the Service and Food Workers' Union (SFWU) are in the middle of preparations for wage negotiations with major aged-care chains, with BUPA negotiations the first to get underway on June 13 and 14. NZNO's acting...
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From:British Journal of Community Justice (Vol. 7, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedCircles of Support and Accountability (COSA) are an innovative, volunteer-based means of supervising sex offenders, usually upon release from prison, which were 'transplanted' from Canada to England and Wales at the...
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From:Journal of College Counseling (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPersonality was hypothesized to predict college adjustment because of the role of perceived social support. A sample of III freshmen completed measures of personality, perceived social support, and college adjustment...
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From:Community Living (Vol. 28, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedCambridgeshire County Council was found guilty of maladministration causing injustice by the Local Government Ombudsman, a salutary lesson for managers who do not keep up with the law and put pressure on their staff to...
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From:Journal of Geriatric Mental Health (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedByline: Ananya. Bordoloi, Arif. Ali, Sabana. Islam Background: Abuse among older adults is a sensitive issue that needs an elaborative research study in the Indian context, specifically in rural areas. A drastic...
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From:Communication Studies (Vol. 56, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOne explanation for sex differences in supportive behavior is that men and women pursue different goals in supportive interactions. Sex differences in goals may themselves be explained by personality traits such as...
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From:Nursing Research and PracticePeer-ReviewedRelationships have both positive and negative dimensions, yet most research in the area of intimate partner violence (IPV) has focused on social support, and not on social conflict. Based on the data from 309...
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From:Sexuality and Culture (Vol. 24, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed
Discursive Representations of Social Support for Reproductive Decision-Making Among Victorian Women.
Social support is a significant, yet little understood, part of the sociocultural environment that impacts women's reproductive decisions. A discourse analysis was conducted on twenty-three semi-structured interviews... -
From:School Psychology Review (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract. In this study, 53 students who reported being solely or primarily attracted to members of the same sex were matched with 53 peers who reported being attracted solely to members of the opposite sex on various...
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From:Journal of Employment Counseling (Vol. 46, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe authors investigated the relation between the social support received by unemployed individuals (N = 104) and their job search behavior. A moderated mediation model demonstrated that the effect of social support on...
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From:Journal of Pregnancy (Vol. 2018) Peer-ReviewedThe objective of this paper is to determine whether social support and acculturative stress were related to obtaining antenatal and postpartum care for pregnant female migrants, as well as access to health care for...
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From:Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (Vol. 47, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedAdults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are at increased risk of suicide compared to the general population. Research has yet to identify the mechanisms underlying this increased risk. This study examined perceived...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 14, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Research has demonstrated benefits of social capital on depression, but variations in this relationship by geographic characteristics such as urbanicity have rarely been investigated. Methods Using...
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From:Journal of Pakistan Medical Association (Vol. 68, Issue 10)Byline: Ayesha Afridi The article "Social support and health related quality of life among pregnant women" is very important issue in Pakistan on which Bushra Gul and colleagues casted light upon with some...
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From:Urologic Nursing (Vol. 33, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMilitary spouses live a capricious life. They often move away from everything familiar to support their active duty spouse Honor, courage, and commitment are values military spouses need to assist them in being strong...
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From:Social Work Research (Vol. 29, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedKnowledge about where battered women present for services and the violence, biopsychosocial, and demographic factors associated with their help seeking can provide social workers with guidance in anticipating needs...
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From:The Review of Policy Research (Vol. 22, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe mystified reality, restricted options, and inherent risks of living in countries under a repressive political regime trigger survival tactics that reduce individual's reliance on social support, as well as semantic...
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From:Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients (Issue 267) Peer-ReviewedSocial support is a concept recognizing patients exist to varying degrees in networks through which they can receive and give aid, and in which they engage in interactions. Social support can be obtained from family,...
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From:Career Development Quarterly (Vol. 52, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedHistorically, many women have lacked confidence in their ability to succeed academically and to pursue career-related tasks (Betz, 1994; Hackett & Betz, 1981). Women who enter or reenter college at nontraditional ages...
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From:Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients (Issue 237) Peer-ReviewedEarly findings on various forms of social engagement and their benefits for individual health have been promising. The largest and strongest body of evidence is currently available for social contacts and relationships,...