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Positive life events and social support and the relationship between life stress and psychological disorder
Author(s) -
Cohen Lawrence H.,
McGowan Jack,
Fooskas Stephanie,
Rose Sandra
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1007/bf00897213
Subject(s) - social support , psychology , health psychology , clinical psychology , stress (linguistics) , regression analysis , public health , medicine , social psychology , linguistics , philosophy , nursing , machine learning , computer science
Conclusion In conclusion, the present research demonstrated the deleterious effects of negative life events. Number of negative events was a significant predictor of psychological disorder even when initial disorder was statistically controlled. The cross‐sectional regression findings provided some support for the stress‐buffering effects of positive life events, but these effects were nonsignificant when initial disorder was statistically controlled. The cross‐sectional and prospective regression findings suggest that received social support, as measured by the ISSB, does not have a direct or stress‐buffering effect on psychological disorder. These analyses, however, demonstrated the direct and stress‐buffering effects of perceived social support, as measured by the ISEL, and the data suggest that the ISEL is a promising measure of this construct.