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Social support and adjustment: Predictive benefits of social climate indices

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  1. Social Ecology Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry TD114, Stanford University School of Medicine, 94305, Stanford, California

    Charles J. Holahan & Rudolf H. Moos

  2. Palo Alto Veterans Administration Medical Centers, Palo Alto, USA

    Charles J. Holahan & Rudolf H. Moos

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This work was completed while the first author was on a leave of absence at Stanford University from the University of Texas at Austin. The work was supported in part by NIAAA grant AA02863 and Veterans Administration Medical Research Funds. We wish to thank John Finney for coordinating the data collection, Bernice Moos for organizing the data files, and Susy Schleuning for her assistance in the data analysis.

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Holahan, C.J., Moos, R.H. Social support and adjustment: Predictive benefits of social climate indices. Am J Commun Psychol 10, 403–415 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00893979

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