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Social support and psychological distress in women and men
Author(s) -
Cramer Duncan
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
british journal of medical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.102
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 2044-8341
pISSN - 0007-1129
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8341.1991.tb01652.x
Subject(s) - general health questionnaire , psychology , social support , distress , psychological distress , stepwise regression , clinical psychology , demography , mental health , gerontology , psychiatry , medicine , social psychology , sociology
The relationship between psychological distress and social support was investigated, along with various other health‐relevant variables, in a nationally representative sample of some 2050 women and 1873 men, who also returned the self‐completion questionnaire in the 1984–85 British Health and Lifestyle Survey. Psychological distress was measured with the 30‐item General Health Questionnaire. Stepwise regression analyses indicated that the quality of family support accounted for a significant increase of 0.2–1.0 per cent of the variance in the GHQ for women and 0.8–1.9 per cent for men. The correlation between family support and distress was reduced from −.13 to −.04 for women and from −.15 to −.10 for men when all other variables were partialled out. It was highest (−.33) for the better qualified women and men in the youngest (18–24) age group.