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Rüya-Daniela Kocalevent, Lorenz Berg, Manfred E. Beutel, Andreas Hinz + 4 more
'Andreas Hinz' 'Markus Zenger' 'Martin Härter' 'Urs Nater' 'Elmar Brähler'] Background The objectives of the study were to generate normative data for the Oslo Social Support Scale (OSSS-3) for different age groups for men and women and to further investigate the factor structure in the general population. Methods…
Zahra Ahani, Moein Shahiki Tash, Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Luis Ramos + 4 more
Social support, conveyed through a multitude of interactions and platforms such as social media, plays a pivotal role in fostering a sense of belonging, aiding resilience in the face of challenges, and enhancing overall well-being. This paper introduces Social Support Detection (SSD) as a Natural Language Processing…
Azam Baheiraei, Mojgan Mirghafourvand, Eesa Mohammadi, Sakineh Mohammad-Alizadeh Charandabi + 1 more
Background Social support is an exchange of resources between at least two individuals perceived by the provider or recipient to be intended to promote the health of the recipient. Social support is a major determinant of health. The objective of this study was to determine the perceived social support and its…
Andreas Hinz, Peter Esser, Diana Richter, Antje Schönfelder + 8 more
'Heide Glaesmer' 'Antje Lehmann-Laue' 'Svenja Heyne' 'Katja Leuteritz' 'Annekathrin Sender' 'Franziska Springer' 'Heide Götze' 'Anja Mehnert-Theuerkauf'] Social support is an important resource that is assumed to buffer the effect of stressful events on health. The aims of this study were to test psychometric…
Stefanella Costa-Cordella, Camilo Arevalo-Romero, Francisco J. Parada, Alejandra Rossi
Although the influence of social support in health is a widely acknowledged factor, there is a significant gap in the understanding of its role on cognition. The purpose of this systematic review was, therefore, to determine the state-of-the-art on the literature testing the association between social support and…
Han Li
Online support communities have become vital spaces offering varied forms of support to individuals facing mental health challenges. Despite the proliferation of platforms with distinct technical structures, little is known about how these features shape support dynamics and the socio-technical mechanisms at play. This…
Fangyan Lv, Cheng Lv, Burebiya Abudurexiti, Qingyuan Ma + 3 more
Background Emerging adulthood marks a crucial maturation from teenage years to independent adulthood, which makes them more susceptible to depression. Prior studies have indicated that social support negatively impacts depression among emerging adults. However, little research has explored the mediating mechanisms.…
Hanyang Shen, Nicole Gladish, Andres Cardenas, Belinda L. Needham + 1 more
Title: Highlights 1. • The connection of social support and epigenetic aging varies markedly by person. 2. • Sufficient emotional support is linked to slower epigenetic aging among Black men. 3. • Having close friends was associated with slower epigenetic aging among Black women. 4. • Epigenetic aging was slower among…
Junwei Kuang, Liang Yang, Shaoze Cui, Weiguo Fan
Patients are increasingly turning to online health Q&A communities for social support to improve their well-being. However, when this support received does not align with their specific needs, it may prove ineffective or even detrimental. This necessitates a model capable of identifying the social support needs in…
Haily Merritt, Joshua Faskowitz, Marlen Z. Gonzalez, Richard F. Betzel
The social environment has a critical influence on human development, cognition, and health. By using network approaches to map and analyze the connectivity between all pairs of brain regions simultaneously, we can clarify how relationships between brain regions (e.g. connectivity) change as a function of social…
Chris Zajner, Nathan Spreng, Danilo Bzdok
Elaborate social interaction is a pivotal asset of the human species. The complexity of people’s social lives may constitute the dominating factor in the vibrancy of many individuals’ environment. The neural substrates linked to social cognition thus appear especially susceptible when people endure periods of social…
Masanori Takano, Kenji Yokotani, Takahiro Kato, Nobuhito Abe + 1 more
'Fumiaki Taka'] Online communication via avatars provides a richer online social experience than text communication. This reinforces the importance of online social support. Online social support is effective for people who lack social resources because of the anonymity of online communities. We aimed to understand…
Syahida Hassan, Janet Toland, Mary Tate
A new phenomenon emerging within virtual communities is a blurring between social and commercial activities. This paper explores the motivations of customers who participate in social commerce, The chosen context is micro-businesses operated by members of a virtual community of Malay lifestyle bloggers. Observations…
Chloe Hegoburu, Yan Tang, Ruifang Niu, Supriya Ghosh + 7 more
The presence of a companion can reduce fear, but the precise neural mechanisms underlying this social buffering of fear (SBF) are incompletely known. We studied SBF encoding in the amygdala of rats that were fear-conditioned (FC) to auditory conditioned stimuli (CS). Pharmacological, opto,- and/or chemogenetic…
Haily Merritt, Mary Kate Koch, Youngheun Jo, Evgeny J. Chumin + 1 more
The environment, especially social features, plays a key role in shaping the development of the brain, notably during adolescence. To better understand variation in brain-environment coupling and its associated outcomes, we identified “envirotypes,” or different patterns of social environment experience, in the…
Lucas V. A. Caldas, Antônio F. L. Jacob, Simone S. C. Silva, Fernando Augusto Ramos Pontes + 1 more
'Fernando Augusto Ramos Pontes' 'Fábio M. F. Lobato'] Abstract—The ways of communication and social interactions are changing drastically. Web users are becoming increasingly engaged with Online Social Networks (OSN), which has a significant impact on the relationship mechanisms between individuals and communities.…
Ying Lei, Shuai Ma, Yu-Ling Sun
Migration: From the Lens of Social Convoys Authors: ['Ying Lei' 'Shuai Ma' 'Yu-Ling Sun'] Migration and aging-related dilemmas have limited the opportunities for late-life migrants to rebuild social connections and access support. While research on migrants has drawn increasing attention in HCI, limited attention has…
Sanguk Lee, Tai-Quan Peng, Lorien Shana Jasny
Social capital theory suggests that network structure influences human behavior. Based on this premise, this study investigates how two distinct network structures-brokerage and closure-affect support provision in Online Support Groups (OSGs). Twelve years of data were collected from an online cancer community based in…
Benjamin Andrés Huérfano Zapata, Andres F Ardila, Pedro L Cifuentes
El enfoque actual se lleva a cabo con el fin de tener un panorama sobre el nivel de inclusión y la participación de las TIC en el soporte social y el apoyo a las poblaciones vulnerables que sufren de enfermedades de carácter crónico. Se hizo la inclusión a través de una revisión bibliográfica, siendo esta la base de la…
Trevor T. Tuma, Emily Q. Rosenzweig, Xiao-Yin Chen, Paula P. Lemons
Support from family, peers, mentors, and professors has a crucial role in the development of students’ motivational beliefs about learning. However, the relative importance of each of these social supports in affecting students’ motivation, and the precise processes through which these social factors motivate students…
Audrey Reeves, Amanda Bischoff, Brice Yates, Daniel Brauer + 1 more
The undergraduate transfer process has well-documented challenges, especially for those who identify with groups histori-cally excluded from science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs. Because transfer students gain later access to university networking and research opportunities than…
Rumiana Tenchov, Janet Sasso, Xinmei Wang, Qiongqiong Angela Zhou
Aging is a dynamic, time-dependent process characterized by a gradual accumulation of cell damage. Continual functional decline in the intrinsic ability of living organisms to accurately regulate homeostasis leads to increased susceptibility and vulnerability to diseases. Anti-aging research has a long history…