چکیده: (12507 مشاهده)
Objectives: The availability of a reliable and valid measurement to assess social
support represents an important precondition to promote health research. The
Social Support Questionnaire (SSQ) was simple to complete and developed by
Sarason, Levine, Basham, & Sarason (1983), so it had been decided to translate
it into Farsi to examine its psychometric properties.
Social support can be defined as perceived availability of people who care about
us the certainty that there are people whom we can rely on makes it easier for us
to feel good. Social support is composed of three types: instrumental,
informational, and emotional. There is lots of evidence indicating that perceived
social support is an important process that can reduce stress and foster positive
health outcomes, such as physical and psychological well-being. Emotional
support particularly was found of buffering effect of various stressful life events
consequently having a positive effect on physical and psychological health.
Method: A convenient sample of 270 individuals aged 18-65 years old recruited
from two private English language teaching institutions and from the Ministry of
Health and Education. The data were analyzed with: one-sample Kolmogorov-
Smirnov Z test, Mann Whitney U-tests, ANOVAs, ANCOVAs, Spearmen’s rho
correlation and Cronbach’s alpha was calculated.
Findings: Women showed a higher satisfaction with social support compared to
men whereas there was no gender-difference in the number of reported
supporting persons. There was no significant main effect for marital status
relating to the number of reported supporting individuals. Neither the number of
reported supporting persons nor the satisfaction with social support was
significantly associated with the age of the subjects.
Conclusion: The internal consistency in terms of Cronbach’s alpha for both
scales were high (number of supporting individuals .95 and satisfaction .96. The
Farsi version of the SSQ has satisfactory psychometric properties supporting
empirical evidence for its use in research and practice.
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رفاه اجتماعی دریافت: 1391/3/22 | انتشار: 1390/4/24