Conclusion The SS‐B appears to be a promising measure of five modes of available
supportive behavior: emotional support, socializing, practical assistance, financial …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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