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When the final whistle blows: Social identity pathways support mental health and life satisfaction after retirement from competitive sport Vrije Universiteit Brussel KU Leuven
For many athletes, retirement from higher levels of competitive sport poses significant challenges. Research has shown that athletic identity is a key predictor of adjustment trajectories, but the mechanisms through which this affects outcomes are less clear. Added to this, there has been limited research on the role that wider social identities, and the resources they enable, play in adjustment. Addressing both these issues, we examined ...
The use of mental health care, psychotropic drugs and social services by divorced people: does informal support matter?,L'utilisation des soins de santé mentale, des médicaments psychotropes et des services sociaux par les divorcés: qu'importe le soutien Vrije Universiteit Brussel University of Antwerp KU Leuven Ghent University
This study compares the mental health care, psychotropic drugs and social service use of divorced people (re-partnered or single) with that of married people. This paper questions whether the availability of informal support facilitates or substitutes for formal care seeking. Data from the Divorce in Flanders survey of 2009–2010 are used. Logistic regression analyses are performed separately for women (N = 3450) and men (N = 3020). Greater use ...
Social support as a form of social capital in status attainment research. An explorative study. Ghent University
This study examines both theoretically and empirically whether social support can be considered as a form of social capital or not. Theoretically, the social support concept satisfies the conditions of the social capital conceptualisation and the main objections do not stand fire after a critical inquiry. Empirically, two well-established social capital propositions are tested with social support conceptualized as a form of social capital, using ...
Social support and social cohesion in services for young children : a study of interactions among parents and between parents and professionals Ghent University
The (ab)sense of a concept of social support in parenting research: a social work perspective Ghent University
Is Available Support Always Helpful for Older Adults? Exploring the Buffering Effects of State and Trait Social Support. KU Leuven
OBJECTIVES: Associations between social support and health are studied since decades. Yet, little is known about how they vary by state versus trait aspects of support and by adult age. At trait and state level, the current study investigates direct associations between social support and health and whether support buffers the daily negative affect (NA)-health association in 2 age groups. METHOD: Seventy-nine younger and 88 older adults (OA) ...
Social support as a key factor in digital inequalities: the necessity of including social networks in the inequalities research agenda Ghent University
This presentation draws on the results of a large-scale study on the composition and socio-economic background of social support networks and their moderating role in explaining digital inequalities. This study, issued and funded by a local government, based on van DijkU+2019s multiple access model, acknowledges motivational, material, skills and usage divides, while focusing on the under-researched issue of social support. Drawing upon the ...