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 …

American Journal of Community Psychology, Vol. 13, No. 3, 1985 Support Network
Characteristics Associated with Support Satisfaction and Perceived Support'Alan Vaux2 and …

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

A, nerican Journal of Comniunity Psychology, Vol. 13, No. 5, 1985 The Perceived Support
Network Inventory Eric J. Oritt'and Stephen C. Paul University Counseling Center, University …

The conceptual and empirical distinction of social support networks and subjective
appraisals of support is increasingly evident in the social support literature. Support …

American Journal of Community Psychology, Vol. 14, No. 1, 1986 Social Support as a
Multifaceted Concept: Examination of Important Dimensions for Adjustment'Joan Fiore, 2 …

Growing research interest in social support underscores the need for reliable and valid
measures of this concept. It is argued that measures that assess what indivMuals actually do …

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 …

American Journal of Community Psychology, Vol. 12, No. 1, 1984 The Inventory of Socially
Supportive Behaviors: Dimensionality, Prediction, and Gender Differences1 Joseph P …

The growth of research on social support has led to a comparable proliferation in the ways it
is conceptualized and operationalized. The overall purpose of the present paper was to …