Social Support as a Stress Buffer or Stress Amplifier and the Moderating Role of Implicit Motives: Protocol for a Randomized Study

BackgroundPrevious research shows that providing social support in socioevaluative stress situations reduces participants’ stress responses. This stress-buffer effect, however, does not hold for everybody, and some studies even found a stress-amplifying effect of social suppo...

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Main Authors: Alisa Haufler, Beate Ditzen, Julia Schüler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: JMIR Publications 2022-08-01
Series:JMIR Research Protocols
Online Access:https://www.researchprotocols.org/2022/8/e39509