Wang H H
School of Nursing, Kaohsiung Medical College, Taiwan, Republic of China.
Kaohsiung J Med Sci. 1998 Nov;14(11):717-26.
This study focuses upon the relationship between social support and well-being and the effect size of social support on well-being. Meta-analysis was used to synthesize the primary research studies and a computer search was used in the preliminary examination of the literature. After this preliminary screening and narrowing of the search, approximately 150 research articles published after 1985 were reviewed. Totally, 21 primary studies met the inclusion criteria of this meta-analysis. This study indicated that 41 outcome variables were used in the 21 primary studies. Of these, seven outcome variables were categorized and named. Among these seven outcome variables, social support was significantly correlated with positive mood state, negative mood state, depression, level of functioning, and quality of life. Social support was not found to have a significant correlation at the .05 level of significance with perceived health status and physical symptoms. These findings have three implications: they facilitate external validity and generalization of research findings of the primary studies; they provide information on the magnitude of sample size for achieving statistical significance between social support and an outcome variable for future studies; and they provide information about social support intervention and enhancing the effect of social support on well-being.
本研究聚焦于社会支持与幸福感之间的关系以及社会支持对幸福感的效应量。采用元分析来综合主要研究，并在文献的初步审查中使用计算机检索。经过初步筛选和缩小检索范围后，对1985年以后发表的约150篇研究文章进行了审查。总共有21项主要研究符合本元分析的纳入标准。本研究表明，21项主要研究中使用了41个结果变量。其中，7个结果变量被分类并命名。在这7个结果变量中，社会支持与积极情绪状态、消极情绪状态、抑郁、功能水平和生活质量显著相关。未发现社会支持在0.05的显著性水平上与感知健康状况和身体症状有显著相关性。这些发现有三个意义：它们有助于主要研究的外部效度和研究结果的推广；它们为未来研究提供了关于在社会支持与结果变量之间达到统计显著性所需样本量大小的信息；它们提供了有关社会支持干预以及增强社会支持对幸福感影响的信息。
