TY - JOUR
AU - Tompkins, Connie A.
AB - The majority of studies that focus on social support and health treat social relationships as independent, intervening, or moderating variables that affect stress or health. Rarely are social relationships viewed as outcomes in themselves. In contrast, the perspective advocated here is that social relationships be viewed as dynamic systems that change in response to both normative and nonnormative life events. Understanding the determinants of social relationships and the factors that cause them to change is critical to unraveling the causal link between social relationships and health. In this article we identify life event stressors that can cause changes in social relationships, illustrate ways in which relationships might change using data from our longitudinal study of stroke patients and their primary support persons, and make recommendations for the measurement and analysis of change.
TI - Life Events and Changes in Social Relationships: Examples, Mechanisms, and Measurement
JF - Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology
DO - 10.1521/jscp.1990.9.1.69
DA - 1990-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/guilford-press/life-events-and-changes-in-social-relationships-examples-mechanisms-qvZfDsJEhr
SP - 69
EP - 77
VL - 9
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -