The Social Support Scale of Tagaya, Okuno, Tamura and Davis: Psychometric Properties in the Elderly
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 sing...
| Autor Principal: | Rivera-Ledesma, Armando; Universidad de Londres |
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| Otros Autores: | Montero-López Lena, María; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Astudillo-García, Claudia Iveth; Universidad de Londres |
| Formato: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Idioma: | spa |
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Universidad Santo Tomás, Colombia
2013
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http://revistas.usta.edu.co/index.php/diversitas/article/view/1221 |
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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 |
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