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The Moderator-Mediator Role of Social Support in Early Adolescents

Adela Yarcheski

College of Nursing, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ.

Noreen E. Mahon

College of Nursing, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ.

The purpose of this study was to examine social support as both a mediator and a moderator of the relationship between perceived stress and symptom patterns in early adolescents. Data were collected from 148 early adolescent boys and girls, ages 12 to 14, who responded to the Perceived Stress Scale, the Personal Resource Questionnaire 85-Part II, and the Symptom Pattern Scale. Using multiple regression analysis procedures specified for the testing of moderation and mediation, results indicated that social support did not play a moderating role in the relationship between perceived stress and symptom patterns, but social support did play a mediating role in this relationship. The findings are interpreted within the two major theoretical orientations that guided the study.

Western Journal of Nursing Research, Vol. 21, No. 5, 685-698 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/01939459922044126
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