People rely on their social relationships to help them cope with many stressors over the course of their lives. Across three experiments, we randomly assigned people to experience minor adversity or not and then to experience perceived social support (via belonging affirmation) or not. We found that those who underwent adversity without perceived social support had lower scores on personal resources (e.g., gratitude, connectedness) than the other conditions. In addition, we tested whether perceived social support helps people grow following adversity or simply buffers them from adversity-related declines in personal resources. Our findings comparing growth and buffering hypotheses were mixed; however, the evidence for buffering was slightly stronger than the evidence for growth. Thus, more research is needed to determine whether perceived social support buffers decrements in personal resources following adversity or actually promotes growth. Nevertheless, perceived social support is an important source of resilience when facing life's inevitable challenges.

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轻微逆境后感知社会支持对个人资源的影响：归属肯定的实验研究

人们依靠他们的社会关系来帮助他们应对一生中的许多压力源。在三个实验中，我们随机分配人们体验或不体验轻微的逆境，然后体验感知的社会支持（通过归属感肯定）或不体验。我们发现，那些在没有感知到社会支持的情况下经历逆境的人在个人资源（例如，感恩、联系）上的得分低于其他条件。此外，我们测试了感知到的社会支持是否有助于人们在逆境中成长，或者只是缓冲与逆境相关的个人资源下降。我们比较增长假设和缓冲假设的结果好坏参半。然而，缓冲的证据略强于增长的证据。因此，需要更多的研究来确定感知到的社会支持是否会缓冲逆境后个人资源的减少，或者实际上是否促进了增长。然而，在面对生活中不可避免的挑战时，感知到的社会支持是恢复能力的重要来源。