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SOURCEBOOK OF SOCIAL SUPPORT AND PERSONALITY THE PLENUM SERIES IN SOCIAL/CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY Series Editors: C. R. Snyder University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Current Volumes in the Series: AGGRESSION Biological, Developmental, and Social Perspectives Edited by Seymour Feshbach andJolanta Zagrodzka AGGRESSIVE BEllAV IOR Current Perspectives Edited by L. Rowell Huesmann COERCION AND AGGRESSIVE COMMUNITY TREATMENT A New Frontier in Mental Health Law Edited by Deborah L. Dennis and John Monahan THE ECOLOGY OF AGGRESSION Arnold P. Goldstein EFFICACY, AGENCY, AND SELF·ESTEEM Edited by Michael H. Kernis HUMAN LEARNED HELPLESSNESS A Coping Perspective Mario Mikulincer PATHOLOGICAL SELF·CRITICISM Assessment and Treatment Raymond M. Bergner PROCRASTINATION AND TASK AVOIDANCE Theory, Research, and Treatment Joseph R. Ferrari,Judith L.Johnson, and William G. McCown THE PSYCHOLOGY OF VANDALISM Arnold P. Goldstein SELF·EFFICACY, ADAPTATION, AND ADJUSTMENT Theory, Research, and Application Edited by James E. Maddux SOCIAL COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY History and Current Domains David F. Barone,James E. Maddux, and C. R. Snyder SOURCEBOOK OF SOCIAL SUPPORT AND PERSONALITY Edited by Gregory R. Pierce, Brian Lakey, Irwin G. Sarason, and Barbara R. Sarason A Continuation Order Plan is available for this series. A continuation order will bring delivery of each new volume immediately upon publication. Volumes are billed only upon actual shipment. For further information please contact the publisher. SOURCEBOOK OF SOCIAL SUPPORT AND PERSONALITY EDITED BY GREGORY R. PIERCE Hamilton College Clinton, New York BRIAN LAKEY Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan AND IRWIN G. SARASON AND BARBARA R. SARASON University of Washington Seattle, Washington Springer Science+Business Media, LLC Library of Congress Cataloglng-ln-PublIcatIon Data Sourcebook of s o c i a l support and p e r s o n a l i t y / edited by Gregory R. Pierce . . . [ e t a l . ]. p. cm. — (The Plenum s e r i e s in socia 1/c 1 inica1 psychology) Includes b i b l i o g r a p h i c a l r e f e r e n c e s and index. ISBN 978 - 1 - 4 8 9 9 - 1 8 4 5 - 1 1. Social netwo r k s — P s y c h o l o g i c a l asp e c t s . 2. Social i n t e r a c t i o n - -Psychological as p e c t s . 3. P e r s o n a l i t y and s o c i a l i n t e l l i g e n c e . 4. P e r s o n a l i t y and emotions. I. P i e r c e , Gregory R. I I . S e r i e s . HM131.S61869 1997 302—dc21 97-1781 CIP ISBN 978-1-4899-1845-1 ISBN 978-1-4899-1843-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4899-1843-7 © Springer Science+Business Media New York 1997 Originally published by Plenum Press, New Yor in 1997 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1997 http://www.plenum.com All rights reserved 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher CONTRIBUTORS MARK W BALDWIN, Department of Psychology, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3B 2E9 KIM BARTHOLOMEw, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1s6 STEVEN R. H. BEACH, Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-3013 LIZA BONIN, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712 THOMAS N. BRADBURY, Department of Psychology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90024-1563 REBECCA J. COBB, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1s6 LAWRENCE H. COHEN, Psychology Department, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716 PATRICIA M. COLBY, Department of Psychology, University of California at Davis, Davis, California 95616 REBECCA COLLINS RAND, 1700 Main Street, P.O. Box 2138, Santa Monica, California 90407-2138 ADAM DI PAULA, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Van- couver, British Columbia, Canada v6T 1Z4 JANNA BRITTAIN DREw, Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202 ROBERT A. EMMONS, Department of Psychology, University of California at Davis, Davis, California 95616 IAN H. GOTLIB, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305 v vi CONTRIBUTORS IGOR GRANT, Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Diego, LaJolla, California 92093-0622 SHEILA GROSS, Department of Psychology, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylva- nia 17837 TANYA A. HETTLER, Psychology Department, University of Delaware, Newark, Dela- ware 19716 CHARLES J. HOLAHAN, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712 HELENE J. JOSEPH, Department of Psychology, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York 13323 ROBERT M. KAPLAN, Division of Health Care Sciences 0622, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0622 JENNIFER KATZ, Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-3013 KEUNHO KEEFE, Reiss-Davis Child Study Center, Los Angeles, California 90034 GIORA KEINAN, Department of Psychology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel DAVID KERNER, SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0622 NEAL KRAUSE, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, 1420 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2029 BRIAN LAKEY, Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202 JOHN E. LYDON, Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 181 ERIC S. MANKOWSKI, The Center for Health Care Evaluation, Veterans Mfairs Health Care System and Stanford University, School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California 94025 RUDOLF H. MOOS, Center for Health Care Evaluation, Veterans Mfairs Health Care System and Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, California 94025 LISA B. MYERS, Department of Psychology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1222 ARIE NADLER, Department of Psychology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel MICHAEL D. NEWCOMB, Division of Counseling Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0031 CRYSTAL L. PARK, Department of Psychology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056 CONTRIBUTORS vii LAURI A. PASCH, Department of Pediatrics, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-0844 TIIOMAS L. PATIERSON, Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0622 GREGORY R. PIERCE, Department of Psychology, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York 13323 TAMARHA PIERCE, Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A IBI JENNIFER A. POOLE, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A Is6 MARY E. PROCIDANO, Department of Psychology, Fordham University, Bronx, New York 10458 J. T. PTACEK, Department of Psychology, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsyl- vania 17837 JOHN E. ROBERTS, Department of Psychology, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14260-4110 RICHARD M. RYAN, Department of Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627 BARBARA R. SARASON, Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seat- tle, Washington 98195 IRWIN G. SARASON, Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195 DAVID A. SMITII, Department of Psychology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1222 WALANDA WALKER SMITH, Department of Psychology, Fordham University, Bronx, New York 10458 JESSICA SOLKY BUTZEL, Department of Psychology, University of Rochester, Roches- ter, New York 14627 KIERAN T. SULLNAN, Department of Psychology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90024-1563 ROBERT S. WYER JR., Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, Champaign, Illinois 61820 PREFACE The impetus for this book grew out of the need to take stock of the accomplishments and challenges of research and theory on social support, especially that which has focused on personality and social support. The accomplishments are numerous, as attested by the chapters that make up this volume. A substantial literature has accumu- lated indicating that personality may influence the course of support-related trans- actions, how these transactions are encoded and remembered, as well as the impact that such processes may have on outcomes. Acknowledgement of these accomplish- ments must be tempered by the recognition that several conceptual and methodologi- cal issues must be addressed before further advancement is likely. The chapters in this book present an impressively diverse discussion of the role of personality in social support processes and represent an important step in tackling these challenges. The sourcebook is divided into three parts. The first addresses the conceptualiza- tion of social support, its theoretical links to related constructs, and methodological issues. The chapters in this part reflect two critical needs in theory development on social support. First is recognition of the fact that the construct of social support is multifaceted and complex; attempts to define the support construct, therefore, must not only distinguish among the several components that comprise the more general construct of support, but also specify the links among these elements. Second, social support research has been pursued largely independently of other topics within psychology and related disciplines. Thus, social support theories are needed that embed the construct in broader theoretical frameworks that incorporate observations established by researchers in other domains. In the second part, personality processes linking that social support construct to mental and physical health are explored. Social support researchers have been crit- icized for adopting a largely atheoretical approach to the study of social support phenomena. By specifying mechanisms to account for observed associations between social support on the one hand, and physical health and well-being on the other, the scholars represented in this section take an important step in advancing social sup- port theory by addressing the psychological processes underlying these connections. Several of the authors report findings from new studies to illustrate empirical ap- proaches to explore proposed mechanism. ix x PREFACE The third part of the volume focuses on connections between social support and social behavior. For nearly a decade, researchers have noted that the links between perceptions of social support and transactions among network members are modest and are not well understood. The chapters in this part underscore the point that potentially supportive transactions represent interactions between relationship partic- ipants' personal dispositions and the situational contexts in which they respond to each other. Our confidence in the ability of science to advance our understanding of impor- tant topics has been greatly strengthened as a consequence of our interactions with the numerous scholars who have contributed to this volume. Their efforts to organize and synthesize much of what is currently known about the topic of social support, and to chart new paths for further work in the field, reflect a substantial achievement. Our own appreciation for the topic of social support has been greatly enhanced by the thoughtful and stimulating analyses offered by the contributing authors. We hope readers of this volume will share this experience as well. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We wish to thank several individuals and institutions for making this sourcebook a reality. Hamilton College generously provided sabbatical leave to Gregory Pierce, which greatly facilitated the development of the book. In addition, several former Hamilton students, two of whom are currently in graduate school, collaborated in writing chapters for the book: Helene Joseph and Jessica Solky Butzel. Their contribu- tions serve to illustrate the active role of young - as well as estabished-scholars in the social support field. Tracy Hildebrand, a current Hamilton student, invested consider- able energy and time in helping to complete the indexes. We also wish to thank Eliot Werner, Executive Editor at Plenum, for encouraging the pursuit of this volume; his support and assistance aided greatly in its production.
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