Social Support: A Factor of Protection against Stress during Adolescence

Social Resilience as a Protection Against COVID-19 Outbreak

Disasters whether natural or man-made occur from time to time and are accompanied by financial and human casualties. Their harmful effects are sometimes immense mostly on the poor, the illiterate, and marginalized people. This condition may be worsened when the governments have no financial support for the poor to save their lives.

Is greater social support a protective factor against elder mistreatment?

BACKGROUND Elder mistreatment (EM) is a pervasive global health issue and a violation of basic human rights. Our prior study indicates that EM is alarmingly common in an urban Chinese population, yet little is known about risk and/or protective factors for EM. OBJECTIVE This study's goal was to examine the association of social support with the risk of EM and underlying hypothesis is that gre...

Protection against Oxidative Stress

Learned social hopelessness: the role of explanatory style in predicting social support during adolescence.

BACKGROUND Almost no research has examined the impact of explanatory style on social adjustment. We hypothesised that adolescents with a pessimistic style would be less likely to develop and maintain social support networks. METHODS Seven hundred and nineteen students (351 males and 366 females; 2 unknown; M(AGE) = 12.28, SD = .49) completed an anonymous survey in Grades 7 through 10. Explana...

Social cognitive development during adolescence.

Social relationships are particularly important during adolescence. In recent years, histological and MRI studies have shown that the brain is subject to considerable structural development during adolescence. Brain regions that are implicated in social cognition, including parts of prefrontal, parietal and superior temporal cortex, undergo the most pronounced and prolonged change. However, the...