Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support in Indonesian adolescent disaster survivors: A psychometric evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social support plays an important role in adolescents' mental health and well-being, and even more so for disaster survivors. To measure the level of social support, one needs an appropriate tool to produce valid and reliable results; therefore, we aimed to measure the invariance across gender groups, and analyze the construct validity and reliability of the Indonesian version of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS), a social support measurement tool which was theoretically constructed and has been well validated in many countries with various cultures and backgrounds.

Methods

A school-based assessment was conducted in junior and senior high schools in a post-disaster setting in Yogyakarta Province, Indonesia. We analyzed 299 adolescent s

SUBMITTER: Laksmita OD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7069614 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature