The Value of Social Support in the life of a College Student Throughout this semester we spoke about many aspects of social interactions. Most of the information we became competent in, discussed what an influence close relationships have on us across our life span. Continuing, we learned how we can maintain these relationships and the importance of doing so as they have been known to be adaptive mechanisms that promote survival. This paper serves to discuss the value of social support in the context on an individual level rather than the evolutionary approach. Social support can come in many different typologies or constructs. There are however 4 main ones: emotional, instrumental, informational, and appraisal.
Each of these types serve a different purpose. Overall, social support has been very useful for college students at a fairly rigorous school; hence there is a need to provide interventions that deliver these various types of support. Across literature, in the context of social support and college students, college age populations usually are “entering a period of identity development as they transition into adulthood.” (Hefner, 2009) Continuing, they identify that mental health is extremely important because it is the time in which all aspects of life such as their …show more content…
This article dives a bit deeper in suggesting that it is not the platform in which social support is received, whereas here one can receive it from facebook, it is the perceived level of social support itself that helps to mediate. One of the aspects being mediated here are depressive symptoms. (Wright,
Each of these types serve a different purpose. Overall, social support has been very useful for college students at a fairly rigorous school; hence there is a need to provide interventions that deliver these various types of support. Across literature, in the context of social support and college students, college age populations usually are “entering a period of identity development as they transition into adulthood.” (Hefner, 2009) Continuing, they identify that mental health is extremely important because it is the time in which all aspects of life such as their …show more content…
This article dives a bit deeper in suggesting that it is not the platform in which social support is received, whereas here one can receive it from facebook, it is the perceived level of social support itself that helps to mediate. One of the aspects being mediated here are depressive symptoms. (Wright,