Perceived social support in a large community sample
- 1 August 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
- Vol. 39 (8) , 625-636
Abstract
The positive health and wellbeing effects of social support have been consistently demonstrated in the literature since the late 1970s. However, a better understanding of the effects of age and sex is required.Keywords
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