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  • 7 - The importance of context: who needs and who does not need social support among college students?

  • from PART II - LESSONS FROM SELECTED OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES
  • Edited by T. S. Brugha, University of Leicester
  • Book:
    Social Support and Psychiatric Disorder
    Published online:
    31 October 2009
    Print publication:
    24 August 1995, pp 163-173

  • Summary

    This chapter explores whether social support and personality would affect symptomatology. The extent to which people need or indeed are able to use personal relationships is found in literature. The tradition started by Murray and continued by McClelland and others describing peoples' needs and motives has led to work on the need for power and intimacy. The main conclusion to be drawn from the literature seems to be that there is little evidence of the existence of a truly hardy personality-a person who remains asymptomatic under stress, does not need the help and support of other people and genuinely does as well or better without it. There are indeed people who find personal relationships difficult and may only add to their stress levels when they seek support, but they are not asymptomatic when under stress and the impression is that they could still benefit from the right kind of support.