사회적 지지척도제작을 위한 예비적 연구 = A Priliminary Study on Social Support Scale

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This is a study of reviewing the concept of social support and developing a scale that measures social support. Social support, in general, has a positive impact on mental health and buffers negative effects of stress. It is the functional aspect of social support rather than structural aspect that mediates the negative effect of stress.
To measure the functional aspect of social support, the interpersonal relationship-evaluation list was adapted from Cohen and Hoberman (1983). Some items were replaced because of cultural difference. This scale includes 4 dimensions of perceived interpersonal supports, which are informational support, esteem support, belongingness and tangible support. After gathering the data from 110 college students (male 53, female 57), principal componant analysis was computed with Varimax Rotation. As a result, four factors were identified,. They are informational support, esteem support, belongingness and support from family. The items of each subscale were somewhat different from Cohen and Moberman's Scale and the tangible support was not identified. The alpha coefficients of the subscales are ranged from .50 to .92. It is suggested that it should be necessary for further study to refine social support scale and to measure the structural aspects of it.