Susan Gore (1978) studied the effects of social support (i.e., feelings of being loved, accepted, cared for, and needed by others) on 100 stably employed, married blue-collar workers who had lost their jobs when two industrial plants, one in a larger city and the other in a rural area, closed, and found that those men who felt unsupported by their wives, friends, and relatives had more severe psychological and health-related problems.A. had more severe psychological and health-related problems