Social Support - Science topic

In a situation of developing economic downturn, the importance of interventionist activation of entrepreneurship, supporting business entities in order to reduce the scale of the increase in unemployment and the decline in incomes, increases. In a situation of rising inflation and economic downturn, the activation of economic processes through anti-crisis public financial aid programmes may be difficult. Rising inflation can exacerbate uncertainty and economic risks, and can hinder the planning and implementation of new investment projects, new business ventures by companies and enterprises. Central banks are raising interest rates in an attempt to curb rising inflation. Credit is becoming more expensive. Loans offered by commercial banks are becoming more difficult to access. Investment levels are falling. Businesses are carrying out fewer new investment projects. The activity of economic processes is declining and the prosperity of the economy is worsening. The deepening downturn may lead to an increase in unemployment. As a result, it is possible that at the end of 2022 or in 2023, many countries will see a deep economic downturn, a recession of the economy, possibly also stagflation. In order to limit the downturn of the economy, it is necessary for the government to apply anti-crisis programmes for financial support of economic entities and activation of entrepreneurship. Such anti-crisis public financial assistance programmes were recently applied on a large scale during the economic crisis and recession of the economy in 2020 caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19) and the introduced lockdowns imposed on selected, mainly service sectors of the economy. The scale of the applied financial public assistance implemented as part of the anti-crisis injection of additional money into the economy in the form of subsidies and workers' wage subsidies granted to companies and enterprises contributed to the increase in inflation, which already started to rise almost from the beginning of 2021. In view of the above, on the one hand, anti-crisis business activation programmes are necessary in order to limit the scale of the rise in unemployment, which is likely to appear in 2023 when the economy is in recession. On the other hand, however, in view of the currently rising, double-digit inflation, the possibility of applying further anti-crisis state aid programmes is limited.

In view of the above, I would like to address the following question to the esteemed community of researchers and scientists:

What is your opinion on this topic?

Please respond,

I invite you all to discuss,

Thank you very much,

Warm regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Data from the Open science framework

IV1: Sex (male,female), IV2: Perceieved Social Support (low,mod,high)

DV: Identity exploration (continuous data… but scores are 1-4)

the moderation of sex and perceived social support on identity exploration.

Firstly, I have variance in group size - between genders and across the support levels. for example in the female support level low 46, and high is upwards of 1000. Similar In the male groups.

Tutor said it does not matter… which brings me to my next issue:

Normality is violated (Shapiro-wilI, histograms) alongside variance (Levenes test).

data has been cleaned and there are a small number (5) outliers, but not worthy of removal.

lecture notes indicate I can fall on Central limit theorem and run the ANOVA.

my deep dive into research gate and literature says otherwise.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I am working on panel data measuring the direct and indirect effects of social support on subjective well-being from a retrospective cross-sectional data

Social support networks and mental health issues

Today, I found out that a person with a name Meseret Molla Kassahun used my published article as his own and posted it on research gate. I contacted his former boss, Dr Desalegn , the president of Gondar university, However, Dr Desalegn told me that this person was dismissed from Gondar university for other similar problems.

My article is here https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ijsw.12145 I have evidence of several communication with the journal editor.

Meseret Kassahun!

I'm investigating the affects the pandemic has and is currently having on the breast cancer survivor community. I have 15 participants and collected data on basic demographics, mental health (HADS), social isolation, social support, physical activity levels (IPAQ) and sedentary behaviour (average sitting time).

I want to analyse the if mental health is linked to the other variables and what relationship it is (lower physical activity leads to great symptoms of anxiety and depression as an example). I would have used multiple linear regression but my sample size is far too small and under initial checks the data is not normal and will need a non-parametric test.

I'm considering using Kruskal-Wallis Test however i would then have to convert some of my variable to categorical data. Is this the correct choice of statistical test or is there an alternative to this?

Which instrument did the reseacher used in the study

Social support and Suicidal risk among secondary school student of cape town

I have some data with a continuous outcome variable, several time-varying predictors, and two conditions (Group A and B). The variables were collected across several waves.

I want to take a look at whether these time varying predictors are associated with the outcome variable over time (e.g., Is quality of life increased in times of high social support)?)

My assumption is that these predictors will have a greater association with the outcome in one group than the other (e.g., social support will be a greater predictor of QOL for people in Group A than Group B).

Is there a good way to go about this? I've considered and ran a fixed effects regression which reveals these predictors are significant for the whole sample, but I am unsure how to compare predictors between the two groups.

Any help would be much appreciated!!!!

I have 44 projects in 24 of them I cannot enter. I have been trying for 2 months now. I thought it was a technical problem on the site RG. Changed devices laptop, computer, cell phone.

I wrote to the RG support service, but received no response. I would be grateful for your thoughts on this matter.

Iam looking for social support manuals that were used in an intervention improve non-adherence among adolescents. Please help

I'm currently working on my graduate thesis entitled "Resilience and Perceived Social Support as Correlates to Altruism Among Nurses with Secondary Traumatic Stress Symptoms" and I am looking for a more suitable scales for my variables - Altruism, Resilience and Perceived Social Support. I prefer scales with more items, with subscales, and with Cronbach Alpha of 0.70 up. Do you have any suggestions?

Any scales to measure relationship quality at work and social support? These two can be two different scales.

British Academy has just founded a research project on impacts of social tourism, to develop by a research team lead by Dr. Scott Mcabe (Univ. of Nottingham). The project aim to analyze the role of social tourism as a development driver. Considering the highly complex society we leave; given the economic crisis during the las decade; and given the responsibility of the public authorities (in welfare states), opinions and contributions would be very wellcome about the role of social tourism (specifically, old-age tourism) in our society. I would be specially interested in the economic implications of such public support to social tourism. In Spain, such support has decreased during las decades, and old-age tourism destinations are noting that decreasing. Thanks for your contributions!

Hey Guys,

The 'question' above is a topic for a research report. I need some guidance regarding a potential title for the report as I am a bit stuck on which way I should take this.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

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My independent variables are:

responses ranged from 1 to 9. A score of one was given if any ACEs occurred and 0 if none and then the nine scores are summed for each respondent.

Consists of 16-items (5-point scale)

8 items Positive social support

8 items Negative social support

Scores were averaged across the eight items in both positive social support and

negative social support and ranged from one to five for each respondent

My dependant variables are:

Measured by 12 items physical health composite:

Responses on each of the 12 items were weighted based on the composite score as described by the author and converted to scale scores with a range from 6.72 to 71.93.

Consists of a 5-items 5-points scale (Scores were averaged across the five items and ranged from one to seven).

Is there an association between ACEs and life satisfaction?

Is there an association between ACEs and health?

Does positive social support lessen or elevate the association

between ACEs and health and life satisfaction?

Does negative social support aggravate the association between

ACEs and health and life satisfaction?

1- normality, linearity, homoscedasticity assumption?

2- What should I do before running my analysis? Is there anything I should check before running my analysis? ( I don't want end up doing wrong inferences)

3- What are the right tests to run for each question? (I know I will use the

generalized linear model, but I need little bet of details).

Hopefully, some can help me out.

I'm looking for a treatment acceptability questionnaire (to adapt for an online social support community intervention) and each of the questionnaires that I've found assess anticipated treatment acceptability (i.e., pre-treatment). Are there any treatment acceptability questionnaires that ask about acceptability for a completed intervention?

Hello,

Can I use the perceived social support scale of Zimat in my thesis? Is it fine to using an old scale (1988) and what are the justifications or arguments that support that please?

Thank you for your help

A broad range of scales assessing social support exists in the literature. I am looking for a self-report instrument that could distinguish between different 'sources' of perceived social support, e.g. family (of origin), friends, community, others.. It should also be reliable for retesting in several assessment times over the years. I would of preferred to use a scale, validated in Dutch/Flemish, for which norm data in the general population are available, but Belgium does not appear to assess this in the genpop. Preferably, since the questionnaire would be part of a broader project with several other aspects of functioning to be measured, it should not consist of too much items.

Other than these, no criteria to be fulfilled ;-).

Anyone have any suggestions?

Hello,

I am running an HLM to test if degree of social support moderates improvement in physical distress across 3 time points.

I have physical distress as my dependent variable; social support as my fixed factor. Should my continuous covariate be physical distress at T1? I am conducting my analysis in SPSS.

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Hello everyone,

I want to find the correlation between social support and resilience but the data I have is non-normal. So which type of correlation is suited for this data. Kindly suggest.

I have conducted research on models of perceived stress, social support with mediation of patient coping toward flourishing. But based on the results using path analysis on AMOS it shows that the direct effect of patient coping on flourishing is not statistically significant. Whereas based on the results of the bivariate correlation analysis (pearson correlation), it shows a significant relationship between patient coping with flourishing.

Hello,

I’m currently involved in research measuring the psychological impact and outcomes on patients tested positive for COVID-19 -one of the areas that we want to measure is the level of social support and its effects on the outcome. Are there any suggestions regarding what scale to use?

Thank you

Hi everyone,

I am interested to find articles that talk about negative effect that support might have on a parent with developmentally chalenged child (e.g. giving advice when not asked for, criticism, innapropriate comments). I am mostly interested in this construct, but also search for papers that link consequential stress to well-being.

This topic is obviously not as appealing as positive side of social support and I have trouble finding reasearch that explored it among these parents. I would kindly ask for help in form of a reasearch paper, tip, hint, thought or direction in which I could turn my searches to. Of course, more recent papers that deal with this group specifically would be best, but I gratefully accept any recommendation that might help me improve my understanding of the topic (like classical work by KS Rook (1984) The negative side of social interaction: impact on psychological well-being or Shumaker, & Brownell, (1984). Toward a theory of social support: Closing conceptual gaps )

Thank you all very much in advance...

Lana

Hello, if anyone could help me answer this question I would greatly appreciate it. I used PROCESS (Hayes) to see if social support moderated the relationship between mental toughness and stress related growth in athletes following injury. The overall model was significant. Then it was only significant at low levels of social support. It was positive too. what does this mean? am i right in saying that at low levels of social support, the direct effect of mental toughness on stress related growth is increased?

the graph indicates that low social support correlates with low stress related growth but stress related growth substantially increases as mental toughness scores rise

thanks in advance

For a study on employees' wellbeing in the workplace, I was looking for a validated scale that can measure first: employees' wellbeing in the place where they work (so, e.g. are you happy at your job? et cetera).

Second: the social support at the workplace (e.g. do your colleagues help you when you're having a difficult time?, etc.).

Thank you beforehand.

My research project is Contributing Factors Affecting Attitudes Towards Seeking Professional Psychological Help.

I have 4 Independent Variables: 1. Social Support 2. Self-stigma 3.Public Stigma and 4.Self-esteem

1 Dependent Variable: Attitude towards seeking psychological help.

I am completely stuck after the scoring of each item in SPSS. How to run the Normality test and then Multiple Regression.

Do I sum up the scores for each scale and then run test for normality using the sum of each scale scores against the DV?

I want to learn more about the social interactions among the homeless and the social support methods used in their day to day lives.

I am currently working on my proposal for psychology honours where I will be investigating the following research question:

The proposed study aims to explore how the perception of the degree and quality of maternal support may affect the level of psychological distress in women who identify as experiencing an absence of maternal support during their everyday parenting role.

I went with a 2 x 2 ANOVA to keep things simple. 2 IV's of Perceived Quality of Social Support, and Degree of Social support (measured by # of unmet support needs). My DV is psychological distress as measured by the K10.

There will be two groups in my research. 1) women who feel an absence of maternal support in their day to day mothering role, and 2) women who feel supported in their day to day mothering role

In the literature I have found that Relationship Quality may affect the perceived quality of social support.

The study will be using an omnibus survey with a number of different scales. The demographic questionnaire will have a question relating to Relationship Quality.

My question is, how can I analyse Relationship Quality? do I need to do a 2 x 2 x 2 ANOVA or another type of analysis?

I am a PhD student currently exploring questionnaires that I could potentially use to identify older adults (50+ in this project) levels of social isolation, as part of a larger project. I have come across several questionnaires (e.g. Duke Social Support Index, Lubben Social Network Scale, Social disconnectedness questionnaire, Medical Outcomes Study Social Support Survey, Multidimensional scale of perceived social support, Social network index, De Jong Gierveld Loneliness scale) and I am currently weighing up the pros and cons of each to make a decision on which to use in this project.

I have found that some cross over with loneliness, but I would like to have separate 'scores' for social isolation and loneliness, which potentially means separate questionnaires. I have found loneliness questionnaires relatively easy to narrow down, but social isolation I've found much harder.

Hi all,

I am interested in wheter participants differ in their wellbeing score.

I did a PCA and want to use the components of the wellbeing questionaire as dependent variables (there's 3).

I have 5 independent variables at T1 that i want to sees if they predict wellbeing at T2. 2 variables are component scores of a scale on attachments style, 2 are about social support (ordinal) and 1 is on wheter or not the participant had personal therapy now, ever or never (ordinal).

can i use component scores like this? and what is the best way to run this analysis in SPSS?

Hope someone can help!

Thanks a bunch :)

"The effect of gender and Religious Belief on the ability of Humanitarian workers to provide Psycho social support in the immediate aftermath of a violent attack"

"The effect of Gender and Individual resilience on the ability of Aid Workers to Provide Psycho social support in the immediate aftermath of a violent attack."

I am currently working in an emergency duty station that witness Violent attack on targeted at Vulnerable populations, making them refugees or IDP's.

My major concern is getting a tool to measure Individual resilience, or a tool to measure religious belief.

I wish to use a quantitative method and run a correlational study. is this feasible?

While number of P2P protocols have been developed in OverSim, is there any support for social overlay networks in same simulator?

I have gone through number of research papers of P2P technology using OverSim but didn't found anything related to social networks using oversim. I was trying to create social graph (normal graph in oversim). To make it a social network, I tried connecting edges by adding social interest. But i'm getting confused about how to apply P2P protocol such as chord (structured P2P) or Gia (unstructured P2P) to the social network created.

Hello, I'm researching the burnout effect of a certain group and how it is effected by the job demands resources model. The burnout is calculated with MBI. In the JD-R model I have calculated three dimensions for demands (Workload, physical and emotional demands) and three for resources (Autonomy, feedback and social support). Since I have no experience in this, I'm wondering how I can calculate two latent factors out of these six (One for each group)? In the end I want to have a variable for demands and one for resources.

Thank you

Hello everyone, Could you please help me find the best way to analyze the following: my outcome is the rate of cognitive decline measured by the difference between two iqcode scores ( iqcode at follow-up minus iqcode at baseline)

my predictors are different domains of social relations (i.e. social network, social activities and social support) and each consists of several aspects that are dichotomized (example: absence/presence of close friends)

my covariates are all categorical :age grps, gender, education, income...

Dear colleagues We all know that social support has an important impact on physical, mental and hormonal health. Can this be the opposite? Please indicate if someone has a reference about the impact of hormonal, psychological and physical factors on social support. Thanks,

Social isolation is described as a state of complete or near-complete lack of contact between an individual and society.

loneliness reflects a temporary lack of contact with other humans.

Social support is the perception and actuality that one is cared for, has assistance available from other people, and most popularly, that one is part of a supportive social network.

Please, help me to find the best answer to this question.

Conceptually, what is the different between "social isolation", "loneliness" and "lack of social support"?

How we can select variables for multiple regression and structural equation model on the nature of variables such as positive or negative nature of variables in multiple regression or nature of nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio nature of variables in structural equation model. For example can we to investigate the role of social support on prediction of anxiety and depression in a multiple regression!! can we to examine the role of a few psychological constructs such as self esteem and self concept on a few positive and negative psychological constructs in a structural equation model?

Dear All,

I would like to measure the self-evaluated quality of workplace relations (to team members / colleagues / supervisors). Could anybody recommend a validated scale or measurement approach? I was thinking about items like "Most of my colleagues are like friends", "I like talking about my private life with most of colleagues" or "I have a good relationship with most of my colleagues".

Thank you very much!

Hello

I am Trying to find seminal works containing information about social support and substance abuse.

Thanks

We are looking for items and scoring of the Social Support Questionnaire with 27 items for a single person study in Kenia!

to use maternal social support index in my research study

For my thesis, I am testing a model of resilience against depression. I hypothesize that the relationship between extraversion and depression is mediated by social support through resilience. However, resilience would be defined as mental health despite experiencing adversity, so in my resilience variable I need to account for stressful life events.

Is there any way to test this model through Process, or would AMOS be a more reasonable method? In AMOS I could use resilience as a latent variable from the observed measures of resilience and stressful life events, but would I be able to test a sequential indirect effect?

Alternatively, is there another option I haven't considered?

Thank you for any help!

Can anyone help me with a short easy to use questionnaire for assessing degree of social support in a population?

Where can I find a likert questionnaire / scale for social support in the workplace. I need to complete the Methodology section of my thesis. Thanks

Hello researchers,

I am going to implement social support in mediation model. However I can go for peers' related social support, teachers' related social support, or parental social support...

Iinitially, I could just apply those three dimensions in the mediation and see which one of them is significant (if any) for the direct effect.

Subsequently, I could use the most significant one for another mediation model where I would have other mediators which differ from social support, e.g. stress.

Is it a good idea to approach it like this? Or would it be better to include all three types of social support I mentioned along with stress and other mediators?

What are your opinions on that? What are the pros and cons of either way to approach that?

Thank you

Witold

Hi, does anybody know of any short Quality of Life, coping and resilience, and social support / connectedness measures that could be used for service users at a recovery college?

The following are quoted from the New WWEA/LEE NRW Community Wind Report:

" Bonn/Düsseldorf, 14 February 2018 – Few large investors dominated the German wind auctions in 2017, while local community wind projects, so far drivers of the market, will hardly play a role any longer, without major changes to the regulations. The rules which were set up by the German government to protect community energy investors have failed to achieve this goal. In addition, the NRW State government has created additional challenges which may lead to job losses and generally shrinking wind investment in the state. 

The onshore wind auctions introduced in Germany in 2017 are about to squeeze out small and community based investors – up to now the main drivers of the German wind market – and are favouring large investors. Although more than 95% of the successful bids are falling under the EEG’s legal definition of community power, more than one third of the successful projects was submitted by only one project developer which, like several others, made use of the legal privileges for community energy. 

Even the amendments to the auction scheme as introduced for 2018 are not expected to stop the traditional community energy actors from being the main losers. With the auctions, a system has been set up in which success is determined by market power and the ability to speculate. Community based investors are usually not able or willing to take part in such financial speculations, and, unlike utilities, they are not able to simply charge higher prices to end consumers."

Here are to consequent opinions for solving the mentioned situation.

Stefan Gsänger, WWEA Secretary General: “Internationally seen, Germany has been a pioneer and an example for how community energy can make local citizens benefit ecologically and economically from the shift towards renewable energy. In order to continue this role model, the new German government must act quickly: There must be an adequate community energy definition in place, and smaller projects must be exempt from auctions, in accordance with EU de minimis rules. Community wind and small projects should get a remuneration without being forced to participate in auctions, in order to reduce their planning risk. This could be conducive to community power and renewable energy all over Europe and worldwide as many other countries tend to follow the German example in renewable energy policies.” 

Jan Dobertin, LEE NRW Managing Director, sees the NRW government obliged to act: “Community energy integrates citizens into the Energiewende and is essential for a successful shift to renewable energy, the Energiewende. Therefore the state government should undertake everything possible in order to support this model which has been the basis for the broad social support. And the government must refrain from setting up additional barriers.”

Hi! We are two students studying psyhology with very limited experiences with SPSS satistics, we want to know how to get an overall score for two questionnaires: The Situational Motivation Scale (SIMS) and The Multidimensional Work Motivation Scale (MWMS).

We want to correlate the overall score with other variables (all variables: IV=Work motivation, DV=Intrinsic/Extrinsic/Amotivation, Job satisfaction and Social support) Our hypothesis is that Job satisfaction and intrinsic motivation correlates the highest with work motivation.

Any help with a detailed explanation for how to compute this overall score for the questionnaries would be very appreciated.

We attach the two questionnaries.

Thank you!

I need it for my dissertation. Thank you.

Hi! I'm trying to find out what are strategical elements for mutual support between people.

I reviewed related literatures about mutual support and social support, and extracted about 8 elements which are influential and important factors in building supportive relationship.

I'd like to apply these elements in the field where mutual support are needed.

But before applying, I'd like to verify these elements and revise(develop) if needed.

In this case, would using Delphi method be appropriate?

And I also wonder if the panel group can constitute both practitioners and researchers. (Doesn't heterogeneity matter in forming panel group?)

Thanks!

(I will very appreciate if you could give me any relevant literature.)

Hello SEM and AMOS experts,

I hypothesized, as per theory, that my continuous moderator of social support weakens the positive relationship between job demands and job stress.

When i run interaction based moderation in AMOS, i get the following results which i am attaching as a file here.

My question being, am i wrong in assuming that there is a moderation but in opposite direction to what i hypothesized? i.e. Social support strengthens the positive relationship between job demands and job stress? 

If so, It makes no sense logically and also theory wise. How to make meaning out of it?

Hello,

I am using structural equation modeling (SEM) to analyze the effect of differents variables of social support on work-family interface. I would like to analyze if the coefficients change according to two unequal groups (G1 = 237, G2 = 561).

Please let me know which method you have used/recommend.

Thanks in advance

The COPSOQ II (Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire II) has two scales for social support: One for SS from colleagues and one for SS from supervisors. Is there any literature that supports merging the two scores into one?

So, in the end, I would only have one score for social support. Can that be done at all?

Thank you very much!

Can anyone tell me definition of perceived social support by gregory zimet and psychological adjustment by pennebaker?

I am developing a scale that measures satisfaction with formal support for autonomy in pain. I need an instrument that measures satisfaction with informal support to test discriminant validity.

Is there a theory states that receiving supports is conducive to creativity? Or any empirical studies that found social/emotional/instrumental supports enhance creative performance?

I am examining how substance abuse rates are perpetuated in the LGBTQ community due to factors such as victimization, poorer mental health, and inadequate social support systems. As of now I have found information about Gay CBT but no studies that included evaluations. Thank you in advance!

Hello everyone,

Independent Variable (IV): Transformational leadership

Dependent variables (DV): Intention to quit, emotional exhaustion, aggression

Moderator: Social support

The relationship between the IV and the DV's was predicted to be negative.The results show that all the relationships were negative; but the moderator failed to moderate the relationships.

However, the mean values of the IV and the moderator were below average on a 5 point scale (2.30 and 1.70 respectively). While the means of two DV's were above average (4.05, 3.56) and the third DV means is 2.23.

Now the question is: Did the moderating effect fail because of the means?

The key issues are probably these:

- Are there separate support variables used anywhere? If so, have they been the original integer in the range distributions of 0-6 or somehow modified? Eg. Categorized?

- Is the "sum of the amounts" used as such, converted to one of the variable conversion or categorized?

The problem is that the distribution in terms of individual donors is a difficult shape: zero and six is often the case where  there is a big spike. Distributions on the neighbor or the "other" obtained are such that zero is a big spike and the other values are very rare. Can those assigned to groups? Do you have experience?  

Thank you, Minna Salakari

 

Hi,

I am doing some research for my Bachelor Thesis about this special field. Therefor I need any books or papers which deal with the topic above.

Substance abuse is a patterned consumption of a drug in amounts or with harmful methods  Studies shoes that the social support may be helpful to recovery or relapse from it. What is the social support impression on prevention or treatment of it?

According to WHO, Active ageing is the process of optimizing opportunities for health, participation and security in order to enhance quality of life as people age. It applies to both individuals and population groups.

With the population ageing world wide, Its necessary to carry out different activites to make active ageing to our senior citizens. From this active ageing it will indirectly save the health expenses and other social support related expenses of the family, society, community and of Nations. While sharing the Policy and Action program carried out in your country or region or community people from developed country or other region can also replicate the program which will be useful for the well being of aging society.

I look forward to get lots of theoretical or empirical study results as well as policy related materis will be shared in this forum related with active ageing. Thank you every one for your kind contribution.

I am building a social support survey utilizing three established surveys, and adding three of my own questions. I am tailoring this survey to examine a specific population of college students living in recovery. Is there a protocol or ethical procedure to this? The survey is initially going to be used for in-house purposes to inform programming needs. Eventually however, I may want to publish the results, or even the metric itself. What would I need to do other than letting the originators know? I am attaching a copy of the survey.

I will be starting my dissertation soon and am writing my prospectus. My topic is to assess whether or not there is a relationship between diabetes self-care activities and perceived social support in African Americans. I was going to use the Summary of Diabetes Self Care Activities(SDSCA)  and Social Support Survey Instrument (SSSI) surveys . But have recently discovered the existence of the Diabetes Care Profile (DCP) survey which seems to include both social support questions and diabetes self-care activities questions. Has any one had any experience using any of these surveys? The SDSCA and SSSI are faster but the DCP seems more comprehensive.

I'm analyzing data from a study, where Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) is included. It seems that there are scores recorded for 12 items, but I don't know how to calculate the score. Do I just take the mean of 12 scores?

I searched online, and found the following statement:

I'm wondering if that means rating from different individuals. Since I only have one set of scores for each subjects, can I assume that's "global perceived support"?

Elderly population is mostly vulnerable to the various nutritional problem, which is not only because of the physiological aging process, but also due to the lack of social support especially where children left the parents for a job in any other city or country.

The support scales can be general or more specifically for children who experienced some form of trauma. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I am looking for a good perception of support scale that has the sub components of emotional, informational and companionship. Ideally this scale will be a likert scale of greater than 5 and not be used to elicit some structural social network.

Thanks in advance!

my research about social support on transvestites in Indonesia

Social support is essential for patients with chronic diseases. Is it useful for quality of life promotion for hemodialyss patients?

If yes, How it can be used?