{"id":75209,"date":"2025-11-14T20:49:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/the-importance-of-measuring-social-support\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T20:49:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:49:37","slug":"the-importance-of-measuring-social-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/the-importance-of-measuring-social-support\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of measuring social support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding the degree of severity of social support contributes to:<br \/>\n 1) Predicting stability. High levels of social support are associated with a higher ability to cope with stress and crises.<x id=\"gid_1\"><\/x>2) Prevention of mental and somatic disorders. People who receive extensive and relatively consistent social support are less likely to experience depression, anxiety, and health problems.<x id=\"gid_2\"><\/x>3) Improving the quality of life and relationships. Adequate social support increases life satisfaction and strengthens social bonds.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding the degree of severity of social support contributes to: 1) Predicting stability. High levels of social support are associated with a higher ability to cope with stress and crises.2) Prevention of mental and somatic disorders. People who receive extensive and relatively consistent social support are less likely to experience depression, anxiety, and health problems.3) [&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-75209","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\/75209","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=75209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}