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The mobilization of social supports: Some individual constraints

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  1. Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

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This research was supported by grants from the National Center for Health Services Research (HS03029) and the William T. Grant Foundation (82081). I would like to thank Roger Mitchell and two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments and Arthur Sobol for his assistance with the computer analyses.

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Eckenrode, J. The mobilization of social supports: Some individual constraints. Am J Commun Psychol 11, 509–528 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00896802

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