Emotional and tangible social support in a German population-based sample: Development and validation of the Brief Social Support Scale (BS6).

Emotional and tangible social support in a German population-based sample: Development and validation of the Brief Social Support Scale (BS6).

Aim of the study was the development and validation of the psychometric properties of a six-item bi-factorial instrument for the assessment of social support (emotional and tangible support) with a population-based sample. A cross-sectional data set of N = 15,010 participants enrolled in the Gutenbe...

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Main Authors: Manfred E Beutel, Elmar Brähler, Jörg Wiltink, Matthias Michal, Eva M Klein, Claus Jünger, Philipp S Wild, Thomas Münzel, Maria Blettner, Karl Lackner, Stefan Nickels, Ana N Tibubos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5638535?pdf=render

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