“…Social support was measured with a shortened, Hungarian version of Support Dimension Scale (Tandari-Kovács, 2010) developed by Caldwell Pearson and Chin (1987), which measures the perceived degree of social support (Kopp & Skrabski, 1992) on a 4 point Likert scale. The participants had to decide how much they could count on the help of the people in their social environment during the illness, or generally.…”