title: Methodological issues in developing a scale to measure social support.
abstract: In recent years there has been considerable research and clinical interest in developing instruments to assess social supports available to individuals. There is, however, a notable deficiency of attempts to evaluate the psychometric properties of these questionnaires. The present article describes efforts made to evaluate the properties of a Social Relationship Scale (SRS) that was developed as part of a prospective study of the psychosocial influences on the health status of a population. Some descriptive scale statistics are also presented.
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006379:Helping Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011594:Psychometrics; D012737:Sex Factors; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012931:Social Environment