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Social networks and adult social identities: Profiles and correlates of support and rejection

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Funding was provided by an award from the University of Illinois Research Board. The first author is currently supported by an NIMH New Investigator Research Award in Prevention. We are grateful to Ledyard Tucker for statistical consultation, and to Ed Diener, Daniel Klein, and Edward Seidman for comments on an earlier draft.

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Hirsch, B.J., Rapkin, B.D. Social networks and adult social identities: Profiles and correlates of support and rejection. Am J Commun Psychol 14, 395–412 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00922626

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