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Giving Support, Receiving Support, and Social Contact

Abstract:

These results support the hypothesis that giving support accounts for some of the benefits of social contact. However, our findings are based on the use of different measures to operationalize giving and re- ceiving support. That is, the GISO variable measured support that was actually provided to other people (i.e., enacted support), whereas the RISO variable assessed whether others could be depended upon to provide support (i.e., available support).4 Furthermore, it is not clear whether the adverse effect of RISO was due to received support or to the covariation of received support with dependence. In order to con- trol for the difference between the giving and receiving measures, as well as the potentially adverse effect of dependence, we examined the exchange of emotional support between spouses. This domain of sup- port offered virtually identical giving and receiving measures, and in- cluded measures of dependence.

Keywords: Professional Associations, Research Institutes, Academic Departments, Faculty Members, Postdoctoral Researchers

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