{"id":75207,"date":"2025-11-14T20:49:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/aspects-of-the-quality-of-social-support\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T20:49:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:49:37","slug":"aspects-of-the-quality-of-social-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/aspects-of-the-quality-of-social-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspects of the quality of social support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Key characteristics of social support:<br \/>\n 1) Relevance \u2013 the degree to which support meets the needs of a person at a particular moment. Example: Giving practical advice to a person facing a professional problem, not just sympathy or pity.<x id=\"gid_1\"><\/x>2) Emotional responsiveness is the degree to which empathy and understanding are manifested. Example: attentive listening and encouragement when psychological stress occurs.<x id=\"gid_2\"><\/x>3) Reliability and trust \u2013 the degree to which a person can count on receiving social support. Example: Making sure that friends or family will be there when needed.<x id=\"gid_3\"><\/x>4) Interactive support is the quality of social interaction, accompanied by respect, understanding and acceptance. Example: Sharing experiences and feelings in a way that contributes to positive coping.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key characteristics of social support: 1) Relevance \u2013 the degree to which support meets the needs of a person at a particular moment. Example: Giving practical advice to a person facing a professional problem, not just sympathy or pity.2) Emotional responsiveness is the degree to which empathy and understanding are manifested. Example: attentive listening and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-14-key-psychological-concepts-in-ecological-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}