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  1. psycnet.apa.org

    M. McPherson, L. Smith-Lovin, and M. Brashears (2006, 2008b; see record 2006-08930-001) reported that Americans' social networks shrank precipitously from 1985 to 2004. When asked to list the people with whom they discussed "important matters," respondents to the 2004 General Social Survey (GSS) provided about one-third fewer names than did respondents in the 1985 survey. Critically, the ...
  2. psycnet.apa.org

    In the 2004 GSS the authors replicated those questions to assess social change in core network structures. Discussion networks are smaller in 2004 than in 1985. The number of people saying there is no one with whom they discuss important matters nearly tripled. The mean network size decreases by about a third (one confidant), from 2.94 in 1985 ...
    Author:Miller McPherson, Lynn Smith-Lovin, Matthew E. BrashearsPublished:2006
  3. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

    Mental health service use is low across countries, and rates of unmet needs in developed countries, including the United States, vary between 35% and 50% ().Results from the Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) program show that use of general medical services for emotional problems increased from 11.7% in 1981 to 18.2% in 1996 ().However, a large number of people with mental illness ...
  4. By 2014, use of the Internet will increase the size of peoples' social networks far beyond what has traditionally been the case. This will enhance trust in society, as people have a wider range of sources from which to discover and verify information about job opportunities, personal services, common interests and products.
  5. psycnet.apa.org

    The article presents a narrative review of scholarship on social support through social networking sites (SNSs) published from 2004 to 2015. By searching keywords related to social support and SNSs in major databases for social sciences, we identified and content analyzed directly relevant articles (N = 88). The article summarizes the prevalence of theory usage; the function of theory usage (e ...
  6. sciencedirect.com

    Research suggests that social networks exert influence on wellbeing primarily through the provision of social support. Social support is defined as the assistance available via one's connection to others, such as companionship, information and tangible assistance (Cohen, 2004, House et al., 1988, Thoits, 1995).The social network perspective emphasizes the role of structural and compositional ...
  7. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

    We examined the relationship between social network characteristics and global cognitive status in a community-based sample of 354 adults aged 50+ and with Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) scores of 28+ at baseline. Multivariate analyses indicated that interaction in larger social networks relat …
  8. researchgate.net

    To identify social support instances in the ESN messages we used a taxonomy of work-related social support. Although Jolly et al. (2021) catalogued various types of work-related social support at ...
  9. journals.sagepub.com

    McPherson, Smith-Lovin, and Brashears (2006, 2008b) reported that Americans' social networks shrank precipitously from 1985 to 2004. When asked to list the people with whom they discussed "important matters," respondents to the 2004 General Social Survey (GSS) provided about one-third fewer names than did respondents in the 1985 survey.

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