Abstract

GONZALEZ RAMIREZ, Mónica Teresa; LANDERO HERNANDEZ, René  and  DIAZ RODRIGUEZ, Cecilia Lourdes. Psychometric Properties of a Scale to Assess Social Support through Social Networks. Acta de investigación psicol [online]. 2013, vol.3, n.3, pp.1238-1247. ISSN 2007-4719.

Recently, the use and research of social networks have increased, however, to know if people perceived enough social support from their contacts in social networks, adequate questionnaires are required to measure perceived social support received from social networks. Thus, we designed and tested a scale to assess social support through social networks. It was answered by 245 men and 252 women with a mean age of 28.4 years. The scale was designed based on The MOS social support survey (Sherbourne & Stewart, 1991), starting with 24 items, after analysis of reliability and factor structure an instrument with 15 items was obtained. Its reliability measured by Cronbach's alpha was of .94 and an acceptable goodness of fit in the confirmatory factor analysis.

Keywords : Social networks; Social support.