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The inventory of socially supportive behaviors: Dimensionality, prediction, and gender differences

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, P. O. Box 4348, 60680, Chicago, Illinois

    Joseph P. Stokes & Diane Grimard Wilson

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the Office of Social Science Research of the University of Illinois at Chicago for providing support for keypunching the data in this study. While working on this project, Diane Grimard Wilson was supported by National Institute of Mental Health Training Grant U.S. Public Health Service 2-T01-MH 13087-08.

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Stokes, J.P., Wilson, D.G. The inventory of socially supportive behaviors: Dimensionality, prediction, and gender differences. Am J Commun Psychol 12, 53–69 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00896928

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