Social Support Flashcards
Social support
The degree to which a persons basic social needs are met through interaction with other people and describes the kind of networking that helps a person cope with stress
Emotional social support
Demonstrates care, empathy, love, trust, acceptance
Instrumental social support
Tangible support of actions; assisting with a task
Informational social support
Providing advice or suggestions
Appraisal social support
Providing constructive feedback that is useful in self evaluation
Factors that can change social support groups
- crisis
- time
- lifestyle
- finances
Families are the … support group
Primary
Friends are …. Support groups
Short term
Short term social support
Can be intense and fulfil certain roles
Acquaintances
Helpful in specific circumstances
Health care providers role in social support
- short term
- major informational role in support
- need to create boundaries
Social networks
- the web of social relationships or social ties that surround an individual and the characteristics of those ties
- each exchange has an individual link
- individual is a node in the social network
Organized social support
- similar values and beliefs
- voluntary social support tie
- a community with many support available
Computer based support group pros
- overcomes distance and accessibility issues
- information and emotional support
- anonymity
Computer based social support groups come
- frequent membership changes
- no interments support
- can have wrong info
- problematic behaviours
- primary concerns
Social network
- collective social relationship of a person
Social support
- resources within network that are sensed as being available and helpful or actually provided
- an interpersonal transaction involving emotional concern, aid, and affiliation
Social integration
- the degree of involvement or participation in the social network
2 components - behavioral
- cognitive
Opposite of social interaction
Social isolation
Behavioral
How much one engages
Cognitive
How one feels with engaging
- sense of community/role
Social isolation prevention
- identify high risk groups
- educational interventions
Social capital
- the social investments of individuals in society in terms of their membership in formal and informational groups, networks and institutions
Social exclusion
Is an expression of unequal relations of power amount groups in society, which then determined unequal access to economic, social, political, and cultural resources
Roseto effect
- researchers concluded that it was features of social support and social cohesion that accounted for the difference in health status
