Fujitani Tomoko, Ohara Kumiko, Kouda Katsuyasu, Mase Tomoki, Miyawaki Chiemi, Momoi Katsumasa, Okita Yoshimitsu, Furutani Maki, Nakamura Harunobu
Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University, Kobe.
Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Kindai University, Osaka-Sayama.
Psychol Res Behav Manag. 2017 Jun 27;10:195-200. doi: 10.2147/PRBM.S137374. eCollection 2017.
Recent studies have shown that perceived social support is associated with gratitude and sense of coherence, but evidence for this concept remains scarce. In the present study, we investigated relationships between social support, gratitude, and sense of coherence, focusing on the construct of and source of social support among young women.
The study was conducted in 2014 in Japan. Participants comprised 208 female university students (aged 19.9 ± 1.1 years), who completed a self-administered anonymous questionnaire regarding perceived social support, gratitude, and sense of coherence.
Emotional and instrumental social support from acquaintances were found to be lower than those from family and friends. Gratitude was positively correlated with all forms of social support except instrumental social support from acquaintances. However, sense of coherence was positively correlated with both emotional and instrumental social support from family and only emotional social support from acquaintances. Multiple regression analysis showed that emotional support from family and emotional support from acquaintances were positively associated with gratitude whereas emotional support from family was associated with sense of coherence.
These results indicate that emotional social support from family was related to both gratitude and sense of coherence.
近期研究表明,感知到的社会支持与感恩和连贯感相关,但这一概念的证据仍然匮乏。在本研究中,我们调查了社会支持、感恩和连贯感之间的关系,重点关注年轻女性的社会支持结构和来源。
该研究于2014年在日本进行。参与者包括208名女大学生(年龄19.9±1.1岁),她们完成了一份关于感知到的社会支持、感恩和连贯感的自填式匿名问卷。
发现来自熟人的情感和工具性社会支持低于来自家人和朋友的支持。感恩与除来自熟人的工具性社会支持外的所有形式的社会支持呈正相关。然而,连贯感与来自家人的情感和工具性社会支持以及仅来自熟人的情感社会支持呈正相关。多元回归分析表明,来自家人的情感支持和来自熟人的情感支持与感恩呈正相关,而来自家人的情感支持与连贯感相关。
这些结果表明,来自家人的情感社会支持与感恩和连贯感均相关。