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Background: Developers: Copyright: References: Barrera, M.J., Sandler, I.N., & Ramsay, T.B. (1981). Preliminary development of a scale of social support: studies on college students. Journal of Community Psychology, 9, 435-447 Reliability:Inventory of Socially Supportive Behaviors (ISSB) « Family « Surveys/Scales « Downloads
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The following scale can be used to assess social support (Barrera et al., 1981). See Barrera et al., 1981, for information on development of subscales, and see Barrera et al., 1983, for identification of subscales through factor analyses.
Manuel Barerra, Irwin N. Sandler, and Thomas B. Ramsay
Publisher: Plenum Publishing
Barrera, M.J. & Ainlay, S. L. (1983). The structure of social support: A conceptual and empirical analysis. Journal of Community Psychology, 11, 133-143
Internal consistency:
Cronbach alpha = 0.926 to 0.94 (different administrations) (Barrera et al., 1981)
