Author : David L. Pyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Book Synopsis An Investigation Into the Relationship of Life Events, Self-concept, Social Support, and Stress by : David L. Pyle
Download or read book An Investigation Into the Relationship of Life Events, Self-concept, Social Support, and Stress written by David L. Pyle and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research investigated the relationship of self-concept, social support, and life events with stress. One-hundred-eighty-six volunteers, 110 women and 76 men, completed the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale, the inventory of Socially Supportive Behaviors, the social Readjustment Rating Scale, and the SCL-90-R. Regression analyses revealed that self-concept contributed the greatest amount of variance to stress scores, followed by life events, and then social support. All were statistically significant, and contributed a total of 35% of the variance in stress scores. Analyses of variance found no interaction among variables at low levels of life events. At both high and low levels of life events, neither self-concept nor social support alone combined with life events to form a statistically significant interaction. At the level of high life events, a statistically significant interaction of gender, social support, life events, and self-concept was found. Further analysis resulted in a statistically significant interaction of social support and self-concept with women experiencing high life events. Main effects for social support were not found. Evidence for the buffering hypothesis of social support at high levels of life events was found. The major conclusions of the researcher were: strong self-concept plays a more important part in the low stress levels than either life vents or social support; evidence for the buffering effect of social support was seen at high levels of life events; social support buffered the effects of life events among women with low self-concept.