Dressler W W, Mata A, Chavez A, Viteri F E, Gallagher P
Psychosom Med. 1986 May-Jun;48(5):338-50. doi: 10.1097/00006842-198605000-00004.
Research on the relationship of social support and arterial blood pressure was conducted in a town in central Mexico. A culturally appropriate measure of social support was developed assessing perceived support from relatives, friends, neighbors, and compadres (ritual kin). The effects of perceived support from these four sources were compared to the effects of the amount of reported social contacts. For males, more support from all four sources was related to lower arterial pressure, whereas amount of social contact was related to higher diastolic blood pressure; support from compadres had the largest inverse correlation with blood pressure. For females the pattern of correlations was dependent on age: support from relatives and friends was related to higher blood pressure for younger females, whereas support from relatives was related to lower blood pressure for older females. This pattern of relationships is consistent with the place of women in the social structure of this Mexican community, and these results point to the need to conceptualize and measure social support in culturally appropriate ways.
在墨西哥中部的一个城镇开展了一项关于社会支持与动脉血压关系的研究。开发了一种符合当地文化的社会支持测量方法，用于评估来自亲属、朋友、邻居和教父教母（仪式亲属）的感知支持。将来自这四个来源的感知支持的影响与报告的社交接触量的影响进行了比较。对于男性，来自所有四个来源的更多支持与较低的动脉血压相关，而社交接触量与较高的舒张压相关；来自教父教母的支持与血压的负相关性最大。对于女性，相关模式取决于年龄：亲属和朋友的支持与年轻女性的较高血压相关，而亲属的支持与老年女性的较低血压相关。这种关系模式与女性在这个墨西哥社区社会结构中的地位一致，这些结果表明需要以符合当地文化的方式对社会支持进行概念化和测量。
