An implication of the stress-buffering model is that interventions to enhance available social support or to teach persons positive attitudes about commitment, control, and challenge can help make persons less vulnerable to negative events. Such interventions can be conducted in school, clinic, or community settings so as to improve people’s coping ability and thereby improve the mental and physical health of the population.
MAIN-EFFECT MODEL OF SOCIAL SUPPORT
This model of social support points out the direct positive effects on certain physical health outcomes that is independent of stress (Cohen & wills, 1985). The hypothesis of this model directs towards the predictive nature of social support and how it affects our health without a statistical interaction between stress and support. Studies have found that more socially integrated individuals report greater psychological well-being than their less integrated counterparts (Cohen & wills, 1985).
Besides enhancing well-being and protecting health, social support is also found to promote hope, goal orientation and optimism in life. In a study by Padhy, Rana …show more content…
Rosenberg defines self-esteem as the totality of the individual’s thoughts and feelings with reference to himself as an object. It provides a feeling of self-worth, Status and recognition. According to William James, self-esteem is a product of ‘perceived competence in domains of importance’ (James. 1890). Several articles argue that self-esteem is positively associated with adaptive outcomes (pyszczynski, Greenberg, Solomon, Arndt, & Schimel, 2004). This can be justified as the better evaluation the subjects make of themselves, the more they believe the better goals they desire. Self-esteem correlates with optimism because of the potential role that optimism has in raising the possibility of successful experiences ( Heinonen, Raikkonen,
MAIN-EFFECT MODEL OF SOCIAL SUPPORT
This model of social support points out the direct positive effects on certain physical health outcomes that is independent of stress (Cohen & wills, 1985). The hypothesis of this model directs towards the predictive nature of social support and how it affects our health without a statistical interaction between stress and support. Studies have found that more socially integrated individuals report greater psychological well-being than their less integrated counterparts (Cohen & wills, 1985).
Besides enhancing well-being and protecting health, social support is also found to promote hope, goal orientation and optimism in life. In a study by Padhy, Rana …show more content…
Rosenberg defines self-esteem as the totality of the individual’s thoughts and feelings with reference to himself as an object. It provides a feeling of self-worth, Status and recognition. According to William James, self-esteem is a product of ‘perceived competence in domains of importance’ (James. 1890). Several articles argue that self-esteem is positively associated with adaptive outcomes (pyszczynski, Greenberg, Solomon, Arndt, & Schimel, 2004). This can be justified as the better evaluation the subjects make of themselves, the more they believe the better goals they desire. Self-esteem correlates with optimism because of the potential role that optimism has in raising the possibility of successful experiences ( Heinonen, Raikkonen,