Cover; Someone To Talk To; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Part I: The Question; Introduction; 1. Confidants; Part II: The First Year; 2. Weak-Tie Confidants; 3. Beyond Named Confidants; 4. Incompatible Expectations; 5. Relevance and Empathy; 6. Because They Were There; Part III: Beyond Graduate Students; 7. Empirical Generalizability; 8. Theoretical Generalizability; A Final Word; Part IV: Appendices; Appendices; Appendix A: Qualitative Analysis; Appendix B: Quantitative Analysis; Notes; References; Index
Summary
"In Someone To Talk To, Mario L. Small follows a group of graduate students as they cope with stress, overwork, self-doubt, failure, relationships, children, health care, and poverty. He unravels how they decide whom to turn to for support. and he then confirms his findings based on representative national data on adult Americans."--Jacket
