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Reliability and validity of the Brief 2-Way Social Support Scale: an investigation of social support in promoting older adult well-being

OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to explore the relationship between well-being and perceived stress, and the functional dimensions of social support in older adults. METHOD: Data from 306 older adults were obtained in a survey containing the two-way Social Support Scale (2-Way SSS). Also, a subset of t...

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Autores principales: Obst, Patricia, Shakespeare-Finch, Jane, Krosch, Daniel J, Rogers, Elizabeth J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6415481/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30886714
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050312119836020
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Shakespeare-Finch, Jane
Krosch, Daniel J
Rogers, Elizabeth J
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description OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to explore the relationship between well-being and perceived stress, and the functional dimensions of social support in older adults. METHOD: Data from 306 older adults were obtained in a survey containing the two-way Social Support Scale (2-Way SSS). Also, a subset of the sample (N = 165) was filled out with measures of well-being and perceived stress, and a follow-up survey was completed 3 months later (N = 111). RESULTS: Confirmatory factor analyses and reliability analyses provide evidence for a 12-item Brief 2-Way SSS as a reliable and valid measure of the four domains of Social Support. Correlations and regression analyses indicated the scale displayed good concurrent and predictive validity across time points, with receiving emotional support positively associated with well-being at Time 1 (T1) and Time 2 (T2), and Receiving Instrumental Support negatively associated with perceived stress at TI and T2. CONCLUSIONS: This study provides support for the importance of examining the influence of separable elements of social support on psychological outcomes in older adults. The Brief 2-Way SSS was found to have good psychometric properties in this sample of older adults.
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spelling pubmed-64154812019-03-18 Reliability and validity of the Brief 2-Way Social Support Scale: an investigation of social support in promoting older adult well-being Obst, Patricia Shakespeare-Finch, Jane Krosch, Daniel J Rogers, Elizabeth J SAGE Open Med Original Article OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to explore the relationship between well-being and perceived stress, and the functional dimensions of social support in older adults. METHOD: Data from 306 older adults were obtained in a survey containing the two-way Social Support Scale (2-Way SSS). Also, a subset of the sample (N = 165) was filled out with measures of well-being and perceived stress, and a follow-up survey was completed 3 months later (N = 111). RESULTS: Confirmatory factor analyses and reliability analyses provide evidence for a 12-item Brief 2-Way SSS as a reliable and valid measure of the four domains of Social Support. Correlations and regression analyses indicated the scale displayed good concurrent and predictive validity across time points, with receiving emotional support positively associated with well-being at Time 1 (T1) and Time 2 (T2), and Receiving Instrumental Support negatively associated with perceived stress at TI and T2. CONCLUSIONS: This study provides support for the importance of examining the influence of separable elements of social support on psychological outcomes in older adults. The Brief 2-Way SSS was found to have good psychometric properties in this sample of older adults. SAGE Publications 2019-03-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6415481/ /pubmed/30886714 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050312119836020 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Reliability and validity of the Brief 2-Way Social Support Scale: an investigation of social support in promoting older adult well-being
title Reliability and validity of the Brief 2-Way Social Support Scale: an investigation of social support in promoting older adult well-being
title_full Reliability and validity of the Brief 2-Way Social Support Scale: an investigation of social support in promoting older adult well-being
title_fullStr Reliability and validity of the Brief 2-Way Social Support Scale: an investigation of social support in promoting older adult well-being
title_full_unstemmed Reliability and validity of the Brief 2-Way Social Support Scale: an investigation of social support in promoting older adult well-being
title_short Reliability and validity of the Brief 2-Way Social Support Scale: an investigation of social support in promoting older adult well-being
title_sort reliability and validity of the brief 2-way social support scale: an investigation of social support in promoting older adult well-being
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6415481/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30886714
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050312119836020
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