title: Perceived supportive behaviors and nursing occupational stress: an evolution of consciousness.
abstract: Social support has been suggested as one process for reducing nursing's occupational stress. A holistic, noncausal formulation of the stress-support relationship is presented considering Rogers' science of unitary man and Sarter's extrapolations of evolutionary idealism.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009729:Nursing; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000523:psychology*; D012931:Social Environment; D012944:Social Support; D013315:Stress, Psychological