Social Networks, Support, and Coping: An Exploratory Study

Tolsdorf, Christopher Charles

doi:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1976.00407.x

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“…Social support refers to social interaction in which resources are received from others [3]. Social support helps one manage uncertainty, increases one’s perception of personal control over one’s life experiences [4], and helps one toward goals [5]. In medical work, support from both leaders and co-workers is strongly connected to lowered job strain and improved health outcomes [6–9].…”

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Social support in the workplace for physicians in specialization training

Mikkola

Suutala

Parviainen

2018

Medical Education Online

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When becoming a specialist, learning-through-service plays a significant role. The workplace affords good opportunities for learning, but the service-learning period may also impose stress on phycisians in specialization training. In medical work, social support has proved to be a very important factor in managing stress. Social support may afford advantages also for learning and professional identity building. However, little was known about how social support is perceived by doctors in specialization training. This study aimed to understand the perceptions of physicians in specialization training regarding social support communication in their workplace during their learning-through-service period. The study was conducted qualitatively by inductively analyzing the physicians’ descriptions of workplace communication. The dataset included 120 essays, 60 each from hospitals and primary healthcare centres. Physicians in specialization training explained the need of social support with the responsibilities and demands of their clinical work and the inability to control and manage their workloads. They perceived that social support works well for managing stress, but also for strengthening relational ties and one’s professional identity. A leader’s support was perceived as being effective, and both senior and junior colleagues were described as an important source of social support. Also co-workers, such as the individual nurse partner with whom one works, was mentioned as an important source of social support. The results of this study indicate that social support works at the relational and identity levels, which is due to the multi-functional nature of workplace communication. For example, consultation functions as situational problem-solving, but also the tone of social interaction is meaningful. Thus, strengthening one’s professional identity or collegial relationships requires further attention to workplace communication. Abbreviations PiST: Physician in specialization training

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Social support in the workplace for physicians in specialization training

Mikkola

Suutala

Parviainen

2018

Medical Education Online

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“…Cobb 1976, Tolsdorf 1976, Hammer 1981, Winefield 1987, Sörensen and Dalgard 1988, Mitchell 1989, Nelson et al 1992, Biegel and Tracy 1994, Sörensen 1994, Albert et al 1998, Corrigan et al 2004, Cox 2006, Haber et al 2007, Dalgard and Sörensen 2009). Much of the research has been focused on definitions of social support and social networks, in addition to the identification of essential, active network factors such as size, quality, availability, density, reciprocity and utilization, how networks function and to what degree they facilitate service utilization and support recovery.…”

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Social Networks for Mental Health Clients: Resources and Solution

Kogstad¹,

Mønness²,

Sørensen

2012

Community Ment Health J

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Høgskolen i HedmarkNotat nr. 2 -2012 Emneord: Sosial støtte, sosialt nettverk, mental helse klienter. Sammendrag:Dette notatet bygger på en undersøkelse der 850 medlemmer av brukerorganisasjonen Mental Helse svarte på spørsmål om erfaringer med ulike deler av hjelpeapparatet og i hvilken grad de hadde et sosialt nettverk og hvordan dette fungerte. Det ble også krysset av for alder, kjønn, sivilstand, skole-eller yrkestilknytning og bosituasjon. Bakgrunnen for undersøkelsen var et ønske om å forstå mer av samspillet mellom sosiale nettverk og profesjonelle tjenester. Mange studier har illustrert betydningen av sosial støtte og sosiale nettverk for personer med psykiske problemer eller lidelser, og dessuten vist at sosiale nettverk både kan bety redusert behov for profesjonelle tjenester og bedre tilgang til slike tjenester. Vi har likevel begrenset kunnskap om hvordan samspillet mellom sosiale nettverk og profesjonelle tjenester fungerer.Ca. 4000 medlemmer fikk tilsendt spørreskjemaet og knapt 1000 svarte. Støttemedlemmene ble ekskludert fra den kvantitative analysen (men inkludert i kvalitative analyser av det samme utvalget). Cirka 1/3 av respondentene var menn og alderen varierte fra 20 til 80 år, med hovedtyngden mellom 40 og 60 år. 67 % hadde uføretrygd, 13 % var i jobb og 20 % kombinerte trygd med jobb eller studier. Respondentene har erfaringer fra alle deler av hjelpeapparatet, d.v.s. fra tradisjonelle psykiatriske sykehus, DPS-er, dagsentra, individualterapi, familieterapi, hjelpetelefoner, krisesentra, kunst-og kroppsorienterte terapier m.m.Dataene viste at de aller fleste opplever å ha støttende sosiale nettverk. Videre fant vi at disse nettverkene på flere måter kan sies å erstatte profesjonelle tjenester. Når det gjelder hjelp til bedring, kan sosiale nettverk tilby kvaliteter som er på høyde med de profesjonelle tjenestene. Videre fant vi en positiv sammenheng mellom tillit til et sosialt nettverk og tillit til profesjonelle tjenester. Tillit til et sosialt nettverk øker også sannsynligheten for at erfaringene med de profesjonelle tjenestene blir positive.Det er flere konklusjoner som kan trekkes av denne studien. Bl.a. tilsier funnene at nettverkskvaliteter i større grad burde inkluderes i de profesjonelle tjenestene. De åpne nettverksmøtene, hvor profesjonelle og nettverksmedlemmer møtes på mer likeverdig basis, kan her vaere en god modell. Videre vil det ha stor betydning om profesjonelle kan hjelpe utsatte grupper med å bygge egne nettverk. Summary:Background: Several studies have illustrated the importance of social support and social networks for persons with mental health problems. Social networks may mean a reduced need for professional services, but also help to facilitate access to professional help. The interplay between social networks and professional services is complicated and invites further investigation.

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“…Deficiencies in social support and the protective effect of social support have been the subject of investigation in clinical and small community surveys since the theoretical case for conducting such investigations was set out (Cassel, 1976 ;Cobb, 1976;Tolsdorf, 1976 ;Henderson, 1977). Progress since has been documented in various reviews (House et al 1988 ;Brugha, 1995).…”

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Social support networks and type of neurotic symptom among adults in British households

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Background. Current knowledge about associations between psychosocial factors and nonpsychotic symptoms provide little information about their relationship to specific types of neurotic symptoms such as symptoms of fatigue, worry, phobic anxiety and obsessional symptoms.Method. The British National Survey of Psychiatric Morbidity was based on a cross-sectional random sample of 10 108 householders. Neurotic symptoms were established by lay interviewers using the revised fully structured Clinical Interview Schedule (CIS-R). Subjects were asked about perceived social support, the size of their close primary social network and sociodemographic attributes. To assess possible associations between specific types of neurotic symptoms and psychosocial risk factors multivariate Huber logistic models (a modified form of repeated measures design modelling) was used taking account of correlation between symptom types and sampling design including clustering.Results. After controlling for sociodemographic factors the risk of having a high total CIS-R score (o12) was approximately doubled for both types of poor social functioning. Specific types of neurotic symptoms were associated both with a small primary group and with inadequate perceived social support. Depression, depressive ideas and panic symptoms had a higher prevalence in multivariate models. Poverty was associated with low support.Conclusions. Associations with deficiencies in social support and self-reported neurotic symptoms are better explained by symptom type and in particular by depression than by the total number of symptoms. If confirmed by longitudinal study findings this knowledge could be used to inform the development of interventions to improve social support in order to reduce specific neurotic symptom types.

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Social Networks, Support, and Coping: An Exploratory Study

Cited by 486 publications

References 20 publications

Social support in the workplace for physicians in specialization training

Social support in the workplace for physicians in specialization training

Social Networks for Mental Health Clients: Resources and Solution

Social support networks and type of neurotic symptom among adults in British households

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