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Data associated with 6,112 respondents were extracted from the <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">C</jats:styled-content>anadian <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">C</jats:styled-content>ommunity <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">H</jats:styled-content>ealth <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">S</jats:styled-content>urvey (<jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">CCHS</jats:styled-content>; Statistics <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">C</jats:styled-content>anada, 2002) and analyzed. Regardless of gender, higher levels of positive social interaction, and a stronger sense of community belongingness predicted less severity and shorter duration. However, very intriguing gender differences also emerged, which are discussed with reference to the reciprocity norm, conservation of resources theory, and social capital.</jats:p>","journal":"Journal of Applied Social Psychology","year":2013,"id":680824,"datarank":0.5775221402565088,"base_score":3.8501476017100584,"endowment":3.8501476017100584,"self_citation_contribution":0.5775221402565088,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.5775221402565088,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":46,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1778791,"name":"Stacey Wareham‐Fowler","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":971801,"name":"Caroline Barnes","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1778790,"name":"Ken Fowler","orcid":null,"position":0,"is_corresponding":false}],"reference_count":0,"raw_metadata":{"has_enrichment":true,"resolved":true,"title":"Social context and depression severity and duration in <scp>C</scp>anadian men and women: exploring the influence of social support and sense of community belongingness","abstract":"<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>This study examined the effects of 4 types of social support and sense of community belongingness on depression severity and duration in <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">C</jats:styled-content>anadian men and women. 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