The dynamic properties of social support: Decay, growth, and staticity, and their effects on adolescent depression
The dynamic properties of social support: Decay, growth, and staticity, and their effects on adolescent depression
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10.1353/sof.2003.0029
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2003-03-01
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4.8
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Cornwell, B
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Cornwell, B
尽管社会支持是一个静态概念，但其基本的动态属性——衰退、增长和静态——涉及不同的潜在社会过程，因此对心理健康有不同的影响。我使用国家青少年健康纵向研究中的 11,835 名青少年样本，对抑郁症的这些支持特性进行了一系列回归分析。正如假设的那样，支持衰减对抑郁症的积极影响强于支持增长的负面影响。结果表明，对于处于青少年社会环境中的人来说，采取主动而不是被动的方法来管理青少年抑郁症很重要。未来的研究应该采用一个框架，将社会资源的分配视为本质上是动态的，并且对导致相反心理健康结果的对比过程敏感。
Although social support is a static concept, its basic dynamic properties-decay, growth, and staticity-involve different underlying social processes, and therefore have differential effects on mental health. Using a sample of 11,835 adolescents from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, I conduct a series of regression analyses of depression on these properties of support. As hypothesized, the positive effect of support decay on depression is stronger than the negative effect of support growth. Results imply that, for those in an adolescent's social environment, it is important to take a proactive rather than a reactive approach to managing adolescent depression. Future research should adopt a framework that treats the distribution of social resources as dynamic in nature, and that is sensitive to contrasting processes this give rise to opposite mental health outcomes.