Abstract

RIVERA-LEDESMA, Armando; MONTERO-LOPEZ LENA, María  and  ASTUDILLO-GARCIA, Claudia Iveth. The Social Support Scale of Tagaya, Okuno, Tamura and Davis: Psychometric Properties in the Elderly. Divers.: Perspect. Psicol. [online]. 2013, vol.9, n.2, pp.397-407. ISSN 1794-9998.

This research presents the Spanish adaptation and validation of the Social Support Scale (ESS-AM) from Tagaya, Okuno, Tamura and Davis (2000), conducted in four independent samples of elderly people from Mexico City. The scale, with eight reactive measures about perceived social support, with a single factor that explained the 60.7% of the variance with an internal consistency alpha of .84 and significant negative correlations with the Loneliness. ESS-AM is a reliable, useful and simple, which can be used to assess if elderly people have adequate levels of perceived social support in terms of screening.

Keywords : social support; age; evaluation; loneliness; scale.

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