title: [When hardship strikes welfare recipients. On who can they rely?].
abstract: This study analyzes how social support is actualized by comparing 61 welfare recipients with a sample of 21 individuals above the poverty level in the area of St-Henri and Pointe Saint-Charles and by taking into account the level of psychological distress. A second goal is to document how an adversity experienced by a welfare recipient, with or without distress, breaks or change the support network. Results show that individuals with high distress have a less reliable network than those without, that they more often report a refusal of support or are let down and that they have more negative ties in their network. Besides, experienced events are more likely to attack their reputation, represent a threat, a betrayal or prevent access to a right. These individuals are also more likely to be isolated.
authors.affiliation: Département de psychologie, Centre de recherche et d'intervention sur le suicide et l'euthanasie, Université du Québec à Montréal.
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tousignant
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Caron
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D011203:Poverty; D012934:Social Isolation; D012944:Social Support; D012946:Social Welfare; D013315:Stress, Psychological