Social support is the degree to which people are accepted by, cared for, and attended to by important others and is one of the most popular constructs in the psychological canon. This project synthesized data from 60 meta-analyses, which included over 2,700 studies and 2.1 million participants, to evaluate the association of social support with psychological adjustment. Results from a second-order meta-analysis indicated that, overall, social support yielded a robust association with psychological adjustment, r = .24, 95% CI [.22, .26]. Effects of social support were detectable across several outcome categories (mental health, psychological traits, educational outcomes, workplace outcomes), specific outcomes (depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, stress, burnout), and sources of support (friends, family, peers, teachers, coworkers, supervisors), and were detectable across age and cultural groups. However, perceived support was more strongly associated with psychological adjustment than received support. Furthermore, social support effects were larger when examining unhealthy samples, well-validated scales, and cross-sectional studies. Finally, effects were less pronounced in six meta-analyses that controlled for relevant covariates, r = .17, 95% CI [.10, .23]. Given the substantial variability of social support effects across prior meta-analyses (range = .07-.41), future study is needed to identify additional moderators of its association with psychological adjustment. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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社会支持和心理调整：60 项荟萃分析的定量综合。


社会支持是指人们被重要他人接受、关心和照顾的程度，是心理学经典中最流行的概念之一。该项目综合了 60 项荟萃分析的数据，其中包括 2,700 多项研究和 210 万名参与者，以评估社会支持与心理调整的关联。二阶荟萃分析的结果表明，总体而言，社会支持与心理调整产生了强有力的关联，r = .24，95% CI [.22, .26]。社会支持的影响可以在几个结果类别（心理健康、心理特征、教育结果、工作场所结果）、特定结果（抑郁、创伤后应激障碍、压力、倦怠）和支持来源（朋友、家人、同龄人、老师）中检测到。 、同事、主管），并且可以在不同年龄和文化群体中检测到。然而，感知到的支持与心理调整的相关性比获得的支持更为密切。此外，在检查不健康样本、经过充分验证的量表和横断面研究时，社会支持效应更大。最后，在控制相关协变量的六项荟萃分析中，效果不太明显，r = .17，95% CI [.10，.23]。鉴于先前荟萃分析中社会支持效应的显着差异（范围 = .07-.41），未来的研究需要确定其与心理调整关联的其他调节因素。 （PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。