Social Self-Care

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Involves maintaining a healthy social network by cultivating meaningful relationships with friends, family, and community members, and seeking help when needed.

Quote: "Social support is the perception and actuality that one is cared for, has assistance available from other people, and most popularly, that one is part of a supportive social network."
Quote: "These supportive resources can be emotional (e.g., nurturance), informational (e.g., advice), or companionship (e.g., sense of belonging); tangible (e.g., financial assistance) or intangible (e.g., personal advice)."
Quote: "Social support can be measured as the perception that one has assistance available, the actual received assistance, or the degree to which a person is integrated in a social network."
Quote: "Support can come from many sources, such as family, friends, pets, neighbors, coworkers, organizations, etc."
Quote: "Government-provided social support may be referred to as public aid in some nations."
Quote: "Social support is studied across a wide range of disciplines including psychology, communications, medicine, sociology, nursing, public health, education, rehabilitation, and social work."
Quote: "Social support has been linked to many benefits for both physical and mental health."
Quote: "...'social support' (e.g., gossiping about friends) is not always beneficial."
Quote: "Social support theories and models were prevalent as intensive academic studies in the 1980s and 1990s."
Quote: "Two main models have been proposed to describe the link between social support and health: the buffering hypothesis and the direct effects hypothesis."
Quote: "Gender and cultural differences in social support have been found."
Quote: "Gender and cultural differences in social support have been found in fields such as education."
Quote: "which may not control for age, disability, income and social status, ethnic and racial, or other significant factors."
Quote: "These supportive resources can be emotional (e.g., nurturance)..."
Quote: "These supportive resources can be informational (e.g., advice)..."
Quote: "These supportive resources can be companionship (e.g., sense of belonging)..."
Quote: "These supportive resources can be tangible (e.g., financial assistance)..."
Quote: "These supportive resources can be intangible (e.g., personal advice)..."
Quote: "Support can come from many sources, such as family, friends, pets, neighbors, coworkers, organizations, etc."
Quote: "...in the US and around the world."