Stress and Support Processes in Close Relationships

Abstract

reviews three recent studies that spotlight several interactional and social-psychological variables inhibiting or detrimental to the support process presents selected data on the stress and support process drawn from a qualitative study of married couples who have a seriously ill child / these data reveal the ways in which gender, coping, and relationship issues complicate the expression of interspousal support / general aim is to characterize social support as a social process that is shaped by the commerce occurring between people in particular relationships who are attempting to maintain their equilibrium in the face of conditions that are personally and socially destabilizing (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)