The present study adopted a prospective design to explore relationships among various types of social support and depression. Four types of social support, namely network support, instrumental enacted support, socioemotional enacted support, and perceived support, were assessed in a sample of Chines
The effects of types of social support from adult children on depression in elderly persons
โ Scribed by Alfred Dean; Bohdan Kolody; Walter M. Ensel
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 975 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0090-4392
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