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Universitas Psychologica

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TRUJILLO MENDOZA, Humberto Manuel; MARTOS PERALES, Francisco Javier  and  GONZALEZ-CABRERA, Joaquín Manuel. The Spanish Adaptation of Interpersonal Support Evaluation List (ISEL). Univ. Psychol. [online]. 2012, vol.11, n.3, pp.969-978. ISSN 1657-9267.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of Spanish version of the Interpersonal Support Evaluation List-ISEL which was built in its original version by Cohen and Wills (1985). The ISEL assesses the perceived availability of four different aspects of social support, in addition to providing a general measure of social support. The questionnaire consists of four sub-scales (self-esteem, information, membership and instrumental). Each sub-scale consists of 10 items. After a rigorous translation process to produce the Spanish version of the ISEL, we examined the equivalence of the translated version into Spanish for the total scale and each sub-scale in a sample of Spanish university students (N = 441). We obtained an alpha value for the first administration of 0.888 and 0.87 for the second. The test-retest reliability was r = 0.787. It was found that the factor structure would be essentially one-dimensional after exploratory factor analysis with Varimax rotation. In addition, convergent validity was assessed with the Loneliness Scale (r = -0.692, p < 0.001), the Perceived Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (r = 0.712, p < 0.001), the General Health Questionnaire (r = -0.422, p = 0.001) and the Perceived Stress Scale (r = -0.400, p = 0.002). The results could show that the Spanish version of the ISEL can be used with sufficient psychometric guarantees in a population of Spanish-speaking university students.

Keywords : Interpersonal Support Evaluation List; ISEL; Perceived Social Support Questionnaire; Spanish Adaptation; Psychological Test.

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