The Effects of Social Support From Friends on Anxiety and Task Performance1

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<jats:p>The effects of social support provided by a friend on anxiety reduction and task performance were investigated. While the experimentally manipulated social support from a same‐gender friend did not reduce the subject's state anxiety and had a weak facilitating effect on task performance in comparison with that from a same‐gender stranger, the nonmanipulated, spontaneous social support of a friend reduced the subject?s state anxiety and had a facilitating effect on task performance more than in the case of the stranger's support. These results were discussed in terms of congruence in the provider's and the recipient's perceptions of social support exchanges, and in terms of the specificity model.</jats:p>

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