COMMUNICATING SOCIAL SUPPORT.
Series: ADVANCES IN PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS; Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: NEW YORK
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 207
Description: "This book provides new explanations for when and how receiving social support will be evaluated as helpful and relationally satisfying. The author's research addresses a variety of types of relationships and stresses, including young adult friends and romantic partners coping with the stresses of university life; adult friends, family, and spouses responding to everyday hassles; and married couples coping with chronic health conditions. This innovative program of research combines qualitative and quantitative methods to develop a distinctive communication-based framework for understanding why the content, form, style, and sequence of talk matter for our evaluations of the help we receive from others."--BOOK JACKET.