This chapter considers the measurement of supportive functions that are perceived to be
available if needed (perceived support) or functions that are reported to be recently provided …

Abstract presents a brief historical review of the origins of the social support construct and
then assesses the positive and negative aspects of three major conceptions of social …

Distinctions among concepts and approaches to assessing social support are made, and
published generic and specialized measures of social support are reviewed. Depending on …

Beginning in the early 1980s, many researchers started to conceptualize support not as a
unitary concept but rather as a mixture of several different concepts. The social support …

Definitions and concepts of social support are reviewed in an attempt to develop a
theoretical structure for future research. Fourteen techniques for measuring social support …

Abstract my goal is to briefly review the progress that has been made in the assessment of
social support and to outline an agenda for future work/this goal demands discussion of two …

American Journal of Community Psychology, Vol. 14, No. 2, 1986 The Social Support
Appraisals (SS-A) Scale: Studies of Reliability and Validity Alan Vaux,'Jeffrey Phillips, Lori …

To obtain a clearer picture of what constitutes social support, we conducted three studies to
compare measures of different conceptions of social support. Relations of these instruments …

American Journal of Community Psychology, Vol. 13, No. 2, 1985 Social Support
Measurement Charles H. Tardy'University of Southern Mississippi Instruments designed to …

Although the social support literature is growing rapidly, this field of inquiry like so many
others is marked by fuzziness, a multitude of definitions of its major variables, and a lack of …