Social Support

Question 1

Social support

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Emotional social support

Answer 2

Demonstrates care, empathy, love, trust, acceptance

Question 3

Instrumental social support

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Tangible support of actions; assisting with a task

Question 4

Informational social support

Answer 4

Providing advice or suggestions

Question 5

Appraisal social support

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Providing constructive feedback that is useful in self evaluation

Question 6

Factors that can change social support groups

Answer 6

• crisis
• time
• lifestyle
• finances

Question 7

Families are the … support group

Answer 7

Primary

Question 8

Friends are …. Support groups

Answer 8

Short term

Question 9

Short term social support

Answer 9

Can be intense and fulfil certain roles

Question 10

Acquaintances

Answer 10

Helpful in specific circumstances

Question 11

Health care providers role in social support

Answer 11

• short term
• major informational role in support
• need to create boundaries

Question 12

Social networks

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• 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

Question 13

Organized social support

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• similar values and beliefs
• voluntary social support tie
• a community with many support available

Question 14

Computer based support group pros

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• overcomes distance and accessibility issues
• information and emotional support
• anonymity

Question 15

Computer based social support groups come

Answer 15

• frequent membership changes
• no interments support
• can have wrong info
• problematic behaviours
• primary concerns

Question 16

Social network

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• collective social relationship of a person

Question 17

Social support

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• resources within network that are sensed as being available and helpful or actually provided
• an interpersonal transaction involving emotional concern, aid, and affiliation

Question 18

Social integration

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• the degree of involvement or participation in the social network
  2 components
• behavioral
• cognitive

Question 19

Opposite of social interaction

Answer 19

Social isolation

Question 20

Behavioral

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How much one engages

Question 21

Cognitive

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How one feels with engaging
- sense of community/role

Question 22

Social isolation prevention

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• identify high risk groups
• educational interventions

Question 23

Social capital

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• the social investments of individuals in society in terms of their membership in formal and informational groups, networks and institutions

Question 24

Social exclusion

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Is an expression of unequal relations of power amount groups in society, which then determined unequal access to economic, social, political, and cultural resources

Question 25

Roseto effect

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• researchers concluded that it was features of social support and social cohesion that accounted for the difference in health status