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Social support and disorder: Toward an untangling of cause and effect

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This work was supported in part by NIH BRSG grant S07 RR07084-14.

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Monroe, S.M. Social support and disorder: Toward an untangling of cause and effect. Am J Commun Psychol 11, 81–97 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00898420

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