Social climate. Social climate is defined as the person- ality of an environment (Moos & Lemke 1992).
Qualities social climate that foster social comparison competence and the exchange of the defining attributes of social support are, as previously stated, helpfulness and protection.
Without a structure of people (network) with the quality connectedness (embeddedness) required to generate an atmosphere of helpfulness and protection (social climate), social supportive behaviours can not occur.