Social support has long been associated with positive physical, behavioral, and mental health outcomes. However, contextual factors such as subjective social status and an individual’s cultural values, heavily influence social support behaviors (e.g., perceive available social support, accept support, seek support, provide support). We sought to determine the current state of social support behaviors and the association between these behaviors, cultural values, and subjective social support across regions of the world. Data from 6,366 participants were collected by collaborators from over 50 worldwide sites (67.4% or n = 4292, assigned female at birth; average age of 30.76). Our results show that individuals cultural values and subjective social status varied across world regions and were differentially associated with social support behaviors. For example, individuals with higher subjective social status were more likely to indicate more perceived and received social support and help-seeking behaviors; they also indicated more provision of social support to others than individuals with lower subjective social status. Further, horizontal, and vertical collectivism were related to higher help-seeking behavior, perceived support, received support, and provision of support, whereas horizontal individualism was associated with less perceived support and less help-seeking and vertical individualism was associated with less perceived and received support, but more help-seeking behavior. However, these effects were not consistently moderated by region. These findings highlight and advance the understanding of how cross-cultural complexities and contextual distinctions influence an individual's perception, processing, and practice of social support embedded in the changing social landscape.

社会支持长期以来一直与积极的身体、行为和心理健康结果相关。然而，主观社会地位和个人文化价值观等背景因素严重影响社会支持行为（例如感知可用的社会支持、接受支持、寻求支持、提供支持）。我们试图确定世界各地社会支持行为的现状以及这些行为、文化价值观和主观社会支持之间的关联。来自全球 50 多个地点的合作者收集了 6,366 名参与者的数据（67.4% 或n  = 4292，出生时指定为女性；平均年龄为 30.76 岁）。我们的研究结果表明，世界各地区的个人文化价值观和主观社会地位各不相同，并且与社会支持行为的相关性存在差异。例如，主观社会地位较高的个体更有可能表现出更多感知和接受的社会支持和寻求帮助的行为；他们还表示，与主观社会地位较低的人相比，他们向他人提供了更多的社会支持。此外，横向和纵向集体主义与较高的寻求帮助行为、感知支持、接受支持和提供支持相关，而横向个人主义与较少感知支持和较少寻求帮助相关，而纵向个人主义与较少感知和提供支持相关。得到了支持，但更多的是求助行为。然而，这些影响并没有受到地区的一致调节。这些发现强调并促进了对跨文化复杂性和情境差异如何影响个人对不断变化的社会景观中的社会支持的感知、处理和实践的理解。