A broad range of scales assessing social support exists in the literature. I am looking for a self-report instrument that could distinguish between different 'sources' of perceived social support, e.g. family (of origin), friends, community, others.. It should also be reliable for retesting in several assessment times over the years. I would of preferred to use a scale, validated in Dutch/Flemish, for which norm data in the general population are available, but Belgium does not appear to assess this in the genpop. Preferably, since the questionnaire would be part of a broader project with several other aspects of functioning to be measured, it should not consist of too much items.
Other than these, no criteria to be fulfilled ;-).
Anyone have any suggestions?
Hi @Els Elaut, I might suggest your team look at the questionnaire from the US social capital benchmark survey (https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/featured-collections/2006-social-capital-community-benchmark-survey). Alternatively, the community resilience literature has a lot of survey measures for social support and mutual aid. Shameless self-promotion: to measure the effect of social support on efforts at reducing covid spread, our team put together a great survey; the questions and formatting are shared here (https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/JLXBEA). Best of luck in your study!
Hello, maybe check out Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support http://www.yorku.ca/rokada/psyctest/socsupp.pdf - it distinguishes between three sources of social support and is available in many language versions. Take a look at Research Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) -...
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I've been using a Polish version of this instrument and it was a good choice in my opinion. Good luck with your research. Iwona- Badges
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