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,