Abstract

PALOMAR LEVER, Joaquina; MATUS GARCIA, Graciela Lorena  and  VICTORIO ESTRADA, Amparo. Elaboration of a Social Support Scale for adults. Univ. Psychol. [online]. 2013, vol.12, n.1, pp.129-137. ISSN 1657-9267.

The social support has been defined as the interpersonal instrumental transactions that involve help in any of its forms, such like emotional, economic, implicit, explicit, etc. The present research was aimed to devise a scale to measure the perception of social support in Mexicans living in poverty. The scale was based on two instruments: 1) The Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, and 2) The Inventory of Socially Supportive Behaviors. The sample was conformed by 913 people, men and women. A factorial analysis resulted in an internal structure of three components: 1) Social support, 2) Family support, and 3) Support from friends. The three factors explain 66.24% of the total variance and have adequate alpha coefficients that oscillate between 0.71 and 0.94.

Keywords : Social support; family support; support from friends; scale; poverty; Health Psychology; Psychometry; Validity; Reliability; Factorial Analysis.

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