The Orientation of Social Support measure

Alemi, Farrokh; Stephens, Richard C.; Llorens, Shirley; Schaefer, Diane; Nemes, Susanna; Arendt, Robert

doi:10.1016/s0306-4603(02)00251-4

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“…Our findings suggest that rather than playing a health buffering role, or directly influencing drinking levels, social support moderates the extent to which people attend to normative information regarding drinking behavior. This pattern of findings is consistent with Alemi et al (2003), in which social support was found to have no direct effect on personal substance use behavior after controlling for peer influence. Nevertheless, people with high levels of social support did appear to have slightly higher than average drinking levels, for both drinking frequency and quantity measures.…”

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“…Based on these findings, high levels of social support may also correspond to higher drinking levels overall. However, other work suggest that the direct relationship between social support and substance use disappears after controlling for peer attitudes in favor and against substance use (e.g., Alemi, Stephens, Liorens, Schaefer, Nemes, & Arendt, 2003). Thus more research on social support in the context of social influences such as drinking norms is needed.…”

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Ignoring Norms with a Little Help from my Friends: Social Support Reduces Normative Influence on Drinking Behavior

Cullum

O’Grady

Sandoval

et al. 2013

Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology

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Alcohol norms are strong predictors of drinking. However, the extent to which norms influence behavior depends on how closely people attend to them; people are more likely to attend to norms when their affiliation needs are unfulfilled by members of their social networks (Cullum, O'Grady, & Tennen, 2011). Therefore, we predicted that Perceived Social Support (PSS) would moderate the relationship between norms and drinking such that people with low levels of PSS would be more motivated to attend to norms. College students (N = 498) completed measures of PSS and peer alcohol norms and then reported on their drinking behavior daily for 30 days. As predicted, we found when PSS was low, student drinking was strongly influenced by peer norms, but there was no relationship between norms and drinking when PSS was high. Findings suggest that when affiliation needs are high, norms are more influential on drinking behavior.

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Ignoring Norms with a Little Help from my Friends: Social Support Reduces Normative Influence on Drinking Behavior

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O’Grady

Sandoval

et al. 2013

Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology

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“…This factors, lowers the compliance with health care, increase depressive effect, reduce the quality of life, and limit the access to the health care system. [ 30 31 32 33 34 ] The imbalance between life stressors, coping strategies, and social supports in patients with IBS was similarly found by other investigations. [ 3 4 7 16 35 36 37 ] Fujii and Nomura in a study with 105 sample showed that stressors and copy styles are predictive factors which may result in the incidence of clinical IBS.…”

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Life stressors, coping strategies, and social supports in patients with irritable bowel syndrome

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Keshteli²,

Daghaghzadeh

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Adv Biomed Res

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Background:The frequency and the perceived intensity of life stressors, coping strategies, and social supports are very important in everybody's well-being. This study intended to estimate the relation of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and these factors.Materials and Methods:This was a cross-sectional study carried out in Isfahan on 2013. Data were extracted from the framework of the study on the epidemiology of psychological, alimentary health, and nutrition. Symptoms of IBS were evaluated by Talley bowel disease questionnaire. Stressful life event, modified COPE scale, and Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support were also used. About 4763 subjects were completed questionnaires. Analyzing data were done by t-test and multivariate logistic regression.Results:Of all returned questionnaire, 1024 (21.5%) were diagnosed with IBS. IBS and clinically-significant IBS (IBS-S) groups have significantly experienced a higher level of perceived intensity of stressors and had a higher frequency of stressors. The mean score of social supports and the mean scores of three coping strategies (problem engagement, support seeking, and positive reinterpretation and growth) were significantly lower in subjects with either IBS-S or IBS than in those with no IBS. Multivariate logistic regression revealed a significant association between frequency of stressors and perceived intensity of stressors with IBS (odds ratio [OR] =1.09 and OR = 1.02, respectively) or IBS-S (OR = 1.09 and OR = 1.03, respectively).Conclusions:People with IBS had higher numbers of stressors, higher perception of the intensity of stressors, less adaptive coping strategies, and less social supports which should be focused in psychosocial interventions.

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“…The Orientation of Social Support (OSS) instrument was used to obtain the number of family members and friends within the participant’s social network with whom they commit crimes and use drugs (Alemi et al, 2003). …”

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Which Criminogenic Need Changes Are Most Important in Promoting Desistance From Crime and Substance Use?

Wooditch

Tang

Taxman

2013

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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Andrews and Bonta identified the following criminogenic needs as important to reducing offending: substance use, antisocial cognition, antisocial associates, family and marital relations, employment, and leisure and recreational activities. This study examines dynamic criminogenic need changes across a 12-month period and identifies which need changes are the best predictors of criminal offending and illicit drug use among a sample of drug-involved probationers who participated in an intervention (N = 251). Probationers had significant changes in several need areas, and treatment participation moderated some changes. Probationers who had reductions in criminally involved family members they associate with, improved work performance, and decreased alcohol use had the greatest reductions in offending. Those who increased time spent engaged in leisure and recreational activities were less likely to self-report subsequent drug use. These findings suggest that certain dynamic need changes may be more important than others, and designing interventions to impact these needs might improve outcomes.

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The Orientation of Social Support measure

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Ignoring Norms with a Little Help from my Friends: Social Support Reduces Normative Influence on Drinking Behavior

Ignoring Norms with a Little Help from my Friends: Social Support Reduces Normative Influence on Drinking Behavior

Life stressors, coping strategies, and social supports in patients with irritable bowel syndrome

Which Criminogenic Need Changes Are Most Important in Promoting Desistance From Crime and Substance Use?

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