Social Networks, Social Support, Personal Empowerment, And The Adaptation Of Psychiatric Consumers Survivors Path Analytic Models英文电子书.pdf

Soc. Sci. Med. Vol. 43, No. 12, pp. 1743-1754. 1996 Pergamon Copyright © 1996Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in Great Britain. All rights reserved S0277-9536(96)00069-X 027%9536/96 $15.00 + 0.00 SOCIAL NETWORKS, SOCIAL SUPPORT, PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT, AND THE ADAPTATION OF PSYCHIATRIC CONSUMERS/SURVIVORS: PATH ANALYTIC MODELS G. BRENT HALL ~ and GEOFFREY NELSON 2 ~School of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G! and 2Department of Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3C5 Abstract--In this paper, we examine the relationships between social network characteristics, personal empowerment, social support, and adaptation of psychiatric consumer/survivors. Using path model analyses, we found that: (1) personal empowerment had statistically significant direct effects on positive affect, meaningful activity, and negative affect; (2) positive social support mediated the relationship between the proportion of women in consumer/survivors networks and positive affect and meaningful activity; and (3) negative social interaction mediated the relationship between consumer/survivors gender and negative affect. The results point out the importance of ge