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Modes of social support: The social support behaviors (SS‐B) scale

Vaux, Alan, Riedel, Sharon, Stewart, Doreen·1987·American Journal of Community Psychology
DOI 10.1007/bf00919279
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Conclusion: The SS‐B appears to be a promising measure of five modes of available supportive behavior: emotional support, socializing, practical assistance, financial assistance, and advice/guidance. The measure was designed to assess supportive behavior available from family and from friends. For specific purposes the measure might be modified to tap enacted supportive behavior, as was done in Study 4, or might focus on different sources (cf. Tardy, 1985). Further evidence of the divergence of mode‐specific scales would be valuable and might be demonstrated by comparing samples with mode‐specific deficits, by comparing support received for different problem types (in a more sophisticated fashion than was done here), and by showing differentiated associations between modes of support and various outcome variables. The reliable and valid assessment of specific modes of supportive behavior is an important agenda item in social support research: Such a measure would allow more elaborate theories to be tested, and will undoubtedly prove essential in a complete understanding of social support processes.

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Authors
Vaux, A., Riedel, S., & Stewart, D.
Venue
American Journal of Community Psychology
Publisher
Wiley
Published
1987-04
Volume
15
Issue
2
Pages
209-232
ISSN
  • 0091-0562 (ISSN-L)
  • 1573-2770
DOI
10.1007/bf00919279
OpenAlex
W2032883399
Cited by
345
References
2
FWCI
3.27
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
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