Online Social Support - an Adjunct or Substitute for Traditional Social Support: Cross-Sectional Study

Ruthie Liang   ¹ ;   Ariel Pollock Star   ^{2, 3} , PhD ;   Nofar Tsur   ⁴ , MA ;   Moshe Shmueli   ⁵ , MPH, MD ;   Norm O'Rourke   ^{2, 4, 6} , PhD

¹ Irvington High School, Irvington, NY, United States

² Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel

³ Department of Science, Technology and Society, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

⁴ Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel

⁵ Goldman School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel

⁶ Multidisciplinary Center for Research on Aging, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel