TY - JOUR
AU - Wills, Thomas A.
AB -  lournal ot Social and Clinical Psychology, Vol, 9, No 1, 1 99U, pp 1-2 Social support research began with inquiry into the effects of life stressors such as poverty, migration, and industrialization on persons' health and well-being (e.g., Cassel, 1976; Cobb, 1976). In a relatively short time the field has grown into a body of work that includes a variety of clinical and laboratory studies showing the contribution of social relationships to psychological well-being, as well as epidemiological studies showing social support to be a significant protective factor for health outcomes (Cohen, 1988; House, Landis, the & Umberson, 1988). Although importance of social support has been increasingly recognized, theory and research contain many questions about how social relationships contribute to adaptation. The purpose of this special issue is to present the perspectives of leading investigators in social and clinical psychology. Each contributor was asked to pose a question that he or she saw as particularly important for the field, and discuss this question from the perspective of his or her own blend of social and clinical psychology. The overall purpose of the issue is to present theoretical approaches and empirical methods that may lead to continued work on 
TI - Introduction
JF - Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology
DO - 10.1521/jscp.1990.9.1.1
DA - 1990-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/guilford-press/introduction-W6we1xNzKe
SP - 1
EP - 2
VL - 9
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -