A Social Support Measure

Weinert, Clarann

doi:10.1097/00006199-198709000-00007

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“…Higher scores indicate higher levels of perceived social support. Evidence of reliability and validity of the PRQ-Part 2 have been well documented in English (Weinert, 1987;Weinert & Tilden, 1990) and Korean (Han et al, 2002) versions. The internal reliability coefficient for the study sample was 0.93.…”

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Correlates of Depression in the Korean American Elderly: Focusing on Personal Resources of Social Support

Han

Kim

Lee

et al. 2006

J Cross Cult Gerontol

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Today's Korean American elderly are predominantly first-generation immigrants who face stern challenges of acculturation, which is often associated with depression. Social support has been identified as an effective personal resource for alleviating acculturative stress and achieving better mental health outcomes. The purposes of this study were to describe available sources of social support utilized by Korean elders and to examine the relationships among acculturative stress, social support, and depression. In particular, social support was operationalized as an integrative concept encompassing the size of the social network, satisfaction with the support received, and appraisals of the level of social support. This study was a secondary data analysis of an existing survey of 205 elderly Korean immigrants (>or=60 years) in a major metropolitan city on the East coast. Adult children were found to be the main source of support utilized by elders, even when the elder had a living spouse. Hierarchical multiple regression analysis revealed that higher acculturative stress and lower social support were associated with higher depression scores after demographics and health status were controlled for, whereas network size and satisfaction with support were not. Future interventions should address the cultural/social needs of these immigrants, not only by reinforcing their existing social network but also by providing additional support for their family members to prevent social isolation and depression in the population.

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Section: Social Supportmentioning

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Correlates of Depression in the Korean American Elderly: Focusing on Personal Resources of Social Support

Han

Kim

Lee

et al. 2006

J Cross Cult Gerontol

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“…a measure of perceived confidence (r = -26, p < -05); and the PRQ85 (Weinert, 1987), a social support measure (1 = .3 1, p < .O5).…”

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The Relationships among Mother’s Resilience, Family Health Work, and Mother’s Health-Promoting Lifestyle Practices in Families with Preschool Children

Monteith

Ford‐Gilboe

2002

J Fam Nurs

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Hypotheses derived from the Developmental Model of Health and Nursing were tested by examining relationships among mothers’ resilience (health potential), family health-promoting activity (health work), and mothers’ health-promoting lifestyle practices (competence in health behavior) in 67 families with preschool children. Mothers completed a mailed survey containing self-report measures of the study variables and a demographic form. As hypothesized, both mother’s resilience and family health work were positively related to mother’s health-promoting lifestyle practices. Mother’s resilience was also associated with health work. Mother’s resilience and health work were found to predict 41% of the variance in mother’s health-promoting lifestyle practices, after controlling for the effects of family income. Mother’s resilience and health work were most strongly related to different, but complementary, aspects of mother’s health-promoting lifestyle practices. Implication for nursing practice and future research are identified.

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“…To establish construct validity, the 34-item PSQ was shown to factor into the four theorized dimensions of social support consisting of 32 of the 34 items. Correlations between scores from Part II of the Personal Resource Questionnaire-85 (Weinert, 1987) and the PSQ were .42 and .48 for mothers at 4 and 6 weeks postpartum, respectively, suggesting concurrent validity (Logsdon et al, 1996). Based on a sample of 32 mothers, test-retest reliabilities for the importance and received support scales ranged between .69 and .79 for the total scores and ranged between .30 and .79 for the dimensions of support.…”

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Adaptation of the postpartum support questionnaire for mothers with multiple sclerosis

Gulick

2003

Research in Nursing & Health

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The purposes of this study were to determine the dimensionality of the Postpartum Support Questionnaire adapted for mothers with multiple sclerosis through factor-analytic techniques and to provide construct validity for the factored dimensions. One hundred and seventy-four mothers with multiple sclerosis comprised the sample. Using a priori criteria, a threefactor structure, resulting from principal components analysis with an orthogonal rotation consisting of 24 of the 28 items, was found to best represent the dimensionality of the instrument. The three support factors-emotional, instrumental, and informational-showed acceptable coefficient alpha reliabilities at the 1-, 3-, and 6-month administrations. Evidence of construct validity was shown in that, as hypothesized, (a) mothers with comparatively lower emotional distress reported higher levels of emotional and instrumental support, and (b) mothers with one child reported receiving more informational support during the 6-month postpartum period than did mothers with more than one child. The results support the use of the 24-item Postpartum Support Questionnaire in assessing the adequacy of these specific dimensions of social support needed by mothers with multiple sclerosis during the postpartum period. ß

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A Social Support Measure

Cited by 203 publications

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Correlates of Depression in the Korean American Elderly: Focusing on Personal Resources of Social Support

Correlates of Depression in the Korean American Elderly: Focusing on Personal Resources of Social Support

The Relationships among Mother’s Resilience, Family Health Work, and Mother’s Health-Promoting Lifestyle Practices in Families with Preschool Children

Adaptation of the postpartum support questionnaire for mothers with multiple sclerosis

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