Social Support in Two Cultures: Everyday Transactions in the U.S. and Empathic Assurance in Japan.

We studied received social support using the cross-cultural method of situation sampling. College students from the US and Japan described and rated recent examples of received social support, both everyday support as well as support in response to stress. Middle class, European-American (EuA) stude...

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Main Authors: Beth Morling, Yukiko Uchida, Sandra Frentrup
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4479601?pdf=render