Solace in solidarity: Disability friendship networks buffer well-being.

Conclusions/Implications: Friends with disabilities can offer uniquely important informational and emotional support resources that buffer the impact of a functional impairment on well-being. Psychosocial interventions should help people with long-term disabilities build their peer support networks. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research