Moreover, social conversation can be exercised by women to seek social support, representing a gain for women drug users in treatment (Fahrudin & Nurdin, 2010).
The hypotheses that the strategies in religion/fanciful thoughts and in the search for social support represent a positive correlation with the SWB were not confirmed.
Social support represents an important protective factor against adverse mental health effects for the general population, as it appears to provide an effective buffer against stressful experiences (Ager et al. 2012; Brooks et al. 2015; Cardozo et al. 2012; Eriksson et al. 2012; Musa and Hamid 2008).
The first and second pillars (healthy lifestyle and the strengthening of social support) represent patient empowerment.
In this regard, social networks represent the structural aspects of social relationships and social support represents the functional aspects.
A composite index of social support, representing the network (number of supporting friends and relatives, the frequency of contact with these individuals, and involvement in organised social groups) and personal (access to close personal relationships) features of social support has been constructed for the purposes of the xTEND project [ 48].
When the family member was a parent, when admissions were unexpected, and those with fewer social supports represent potential 'at risk' groups whose adaptation to transfer may limit their coping ability.
For Magliano and colleagues [ 27], professional and social network supports represent crucial resources for reducing family burden in schizophrenia.
For both measures of social support, higher values represent higher social support, that is, lower autistic features.
In the present study, the subscales 'confrontation' and 'seeking social support' were selected to represent active coping, and the subscales 'depressive reactions' and 'avoidance' were selected to represent passive coping (Meijer et al. 2002).
