Resilience and Social Support-Giving Scales: Conceptual and Empirical Validation.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This report introduces National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) data users to 2 new measures-one that assesses older adults' resilience, defined as personal attributes that indicate an adaptive reserve that can be drawn on during adversity, and a second that expands on existing measures of social support received from others to also assess social support given to close others.

Method

Data from 4,604 NSHAP respondents born 1920-1965 were used to conduct psychometric analyses and validation of our measures of resilience and social support-giving.

Results

Scale reliabilities were acceptable for the 4-item resilience scale, and the 2-item scales for family support-giving and friend support-giving. The 2 spousal support-giving items did not cohere

SUBMITTER: Hawkley L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8678431 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature