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- Title
The contingency of social support.
- Authors
Lackner S; Goldenberg S; Arrizza G; Tjosvold I
- Abstract
A close examination of supportive transactions during diagnosis and treatment for cancer reveals a pattern of relations that help to determine how and when the social support network will be activated. A number of contingencies are taken into account by network members in crisis: the history of past relationships, personal coping abilities, and the perceived state of the overall network. These three contingencies interact to provide a context by which subjects make decisions regarding the nature of subsequent social support transactions.
- Publication
Qualitative Health Research, 1994, Vol 4, Issue 2, p224
- ISSN
1049-7323
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1177/104973239400400206