Precedents of perceived social support: Personality and early life experiences

Abstract

In order to examine the effects of personality and early life experiences on perceived social support, a total of 97 young Japanese women were investigated. Early life experiences at home and outside of home were also identified in the interview. The number of sources of perceived support was correlated with self-directness, while satisfaction with perceived support was correlated with novelty seeking and with low harm avoidance. No early life experiences -early loss of a parent, perceived parenting, childhood abuse experiences, experiences of being bullied and/or other life events -showed significant correlations with the number or satisfaction of supportive people. The quantity and quality of perception of social support differ in their link to personality, and perceived social support may, to some extent, be explainable in terms of personality.

Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) as predictors of depression among Japanese college students

“…SD was also related to the number of supportive people in the subject's network (Kitamura, Kijima, Watanabe, Takezaki, & Tanaka, 1998). Terry, Rawle, & Callan (1995) showed that a better perception of social support by pregnant women could predict efficient coping behavior after childbirth.…”

Personality traits as risk factors of depression and anxiety among Japanese students

“…The SelfDirectedness construct includes cognitive functions such as self-esteem, internal locus of control, problem-solving, coping behaviors, and perceived support resources. Kitamura, Kijima, Watanabe, Takezaki, and Tanaka (1999) reported that higher Self-Directedness is related to the number of supportive people in the social network. The character dimensions are developed by psychotherapy (Cloninger et al, 1993).…”

Parental Rearing Attitudes and Health-Related Lifestyle of University Students

“…Previous studies using the PBI have shown a general trend for patients with neurotic depression to score their parents low for care and high for overprotection (Parker, 1979(Parker, , 1981(Parker, , 1983aParker, Kiloh, & Hayward, 1987;Silove, Parker, Hadzi-Pavlovic, Manicavasagar, & Blaszczynski, 1991). Furthermore, the PBI has been widely used in psychosocial studies of current interpersonal relationships such as social supports (Kitamura, Kijima, Watanabe, Takezaki, & Tanaka, 1999;Parker, Barrett, & Hickie, 1992) or marital adjustment (Kitamura et al, 1995). The authors, however, know of few studies relating current health-related lifestyle to PBI scores.…”