The Effects Of Social Support On Students

Likewise, male students who have lower social support conveyed higher levels of depression and anxiety. It seems that social support is key predictors of positive adjustment to university life. Generally speaking, female students who stress less and overall better adjust to university life are often regarding themselves as being more socially supported, less lonely (Baqutayan, 2011).

College is a time of extreme stress due to societal and parental pressures. College students have expectations they have to live up to in order to fulfill and satisfy the needs of both their parents and society. Stress is expressed through a variety of symptoms that can be hazardous to student’s physical and mental health. With such high expectations to do well during college, students may become sleep deprived, which impairs mental capacity, but sleep deprivation is only one of a vast array of symptoms. Stress is present in all aspects of life and there are multiple causes of stress, especially, during the college period which may present itself through many symptoms, but with stress, there are also various coping methods to help students

Social support means that a person who get support and help from his/her family, friends and others people. It brings out the importance of relationships in human lives. Meadows (2007), identifies social support as beliefs and/or perceptions that indicate an individual is part of an interpersonal relationship that includes parents and peers. Davison et al, (2000) believe that social support talks about the person needs for support with close others and provide it when others experience distress. For example, Wayne fail in her examination in SPM and she is in depressed mood and unhappy. Without saying words, her friends will just give her a hug or placed their hand on Wayne shoulder for giving her a support. This is a non-verbal communication and interpersonal relationship between Wayne and her friends. Social support can be used in various medical situations, especially stress and other psychological problems faced by people today due to feeling of insecurity. A group of people such as family and peers can work together as a team to provide help and support for the unfortunate.

Most, if not all, communities around the world have some type of informal support system in place. In the article, The Interface between Professional and Natural Support Systems, Baker (1977) states, “In most communities there exists a network of individuals and groups who band together to help each other in dealing with a variety of problems

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas have a reluctance to ask for support from friends and coworkers. An intermediate stepping stone may be setting up a social network site in which to give updates and allow friends and coworkers to offer support and services. This can also be accomplished through churches or other groups the Thomas’s were previously or actively involved with. Psychologically, it allows the Thomas’s to maintain their sense of self-reliance by providing information about their situation without expectations of support. This allows people to be supportive in a variety of capacities and at various levels.

N., & Morash, M. (1999)). Social support from others helps people to deal with job stress. Social support for females is likely to result in effective coping with stress. Studies found that women were better at using their support system because they talk with each other to cope with their

Research suggests that a student’s network of support is critical to his/her success. This research has

Social resources can be a health benefit because they aid our coping by changing our circumstances by making them appear less threatening. Social resources can help one relieve the emotional impact of stressful situations. In a study done by Cohen, Doyle, Turner, Alper, and Skoner (2003), it was found that higher levels of sociability correlated to lower levels of illness. Furthermore, it was found that having a “positive emotional style was associated with a lower risk of developing a cold” (Cohen, Doyle, et al. 2003; 393). Supporting what I mentioned above, having social ties means that ones has a larger network to draw support from – whether they are percieved are actual. One common trend is the importance of having a strong social support

A communication approach to the study of social support views it as an interactive process involving support-seeking behavior, the giving of support, and a response to support by the receiver (Barbee, 1990; Burleson et al., 1994; House, 1981). Support-giving communication includes "any behaviors with altruistic intent directed toward another individual" (Dunkel-Schetter, Blasband, Feinstein, & Herbert, 1992, p. 90), such as providing advice or comfort. Those who receive effective social support may experience benefits such as feelings of well-being, a sense of being accepted and understood, and an improved ability to control and cope with stressful events (Burleson, 1994).

As a senior in high school, I had no idea how important this kind of social support was for the healing process. I am incredibly glad I self-taught Psychology 101 so I could sign into higher level psychology classes like Adult and Health Psychology. My Health Psychology class taught me to understand the medical process through the biopsychosocial approach, where psychological and social factors contribute to the overall health of a person. In our discussion about stress, I

Social support is that human and material support offered to people suffering from various diseases or various body inabilities. The support could in the form of material things such as money, food, clothing and shelter. The other support is in the form of offering services such as washing clothes, cooking, loving and caring about those suffering from deadly diseases or having health dysfunctions. The social support could be initiated and contributed by one individual, a group or community at large. The social support groups benefit people suffering various diseases such as, HIV/AIDs, cancer, Backbone injuries, the blind, the dumb, hearing impaired people and many more in different manners. (Jeong, 2011) The social support has focused on ensuring a better life for people with no hope of their tomorrow. Even though there are many setbacks facing the social support to the outcasts in the community the current available groups have done to their best in ensuring a better environment for those with several inabilities in the community. From the various researches about the effectiveness of support groups, it is correct to say that social support parties are doing great in the society. In other dimensions, social support could be in form guidance and counseling in matters such as rape, early pregnancies, Female genital mutilation campaigns and many other mostly social evils affecting our communities today. In this analysis focuses on the role and effectiveness of social support

The use of peer-leader instructional learning (PIL), has been shown to be positively correlated with improving student self-efficacy, learning, grades, and confidence in past research (Hughes, 2011). However, most of this research has been carried out in Science, Technology Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) courses (e.g. upper level physics courses) (Murray, 2011). More research is needed in order to determine if implementation within social science learning environments would parallel the results that have been noted in STEM learning environments. The PIL is a student that facilitates the material given to other students in order to

According to Lett et al. (2005)’s categorization, the types of social support reviewed by this paper by could be broadly grouped into two categories. The first type is structural support, which usually refers to the size of one’s social network, the type of relationship or the frequency of one’s contact (Berkman et al., 1992; Gorkin et al., 1993; Chandra et al., 1983; Jenkinson et al., 2000). The second type is perceived functional support, indicating one’s subjective interpretation of whether support would be available if needed (Berkman et al., 1992; Gorkin et al., 1993; Welin et al., 2000).

Perceived support (also known as functional support; Wills & Filer, 2001) is the subjective judgment that family and friends would provide quality assistance with future stressors. People with high perceived-support believe that they can count on their family and friends to provide quality assistance during times of trouble (Wan et al., 1992, Thoits, 1995). This assistance may include listening to the stressed person talk about troubles, expressing warmth and affection,

International students need social support because they will face at least two challenges in the new academic settings. First, the adaptation to the new environment because of different geographic location, climate and also different culture. Second, adaptation to new educational system that may differ with home country system with different academic demand. Moreover, International students will also challenged by being away from family and relatives and also will deal with technical and financial aspects. Consequently developing the new one or enhance the existing social network is very important to help student succeed