Measure of perceived social support during adolescence (APIK)

  1. Izar de la Fuente, Iker 1
  2. Rodríguez-Fernández, Aránzazu 1
  3. Escalante Mateos, Naiara 1
  1. 1 Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
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    Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

    Lejona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/000xsnr85

Journal:
EJIHPE: European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education

ISSN: 2174-8144,  2254-9625

Year of publication: 2019

Volume: 9

Issue: 2

Pages: 83-94

Type: Article

DOI: 10.30552/EJIHPE.V9I2.322 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

More publications in: EJIHPE: European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education

Abstract

Social support has become a subject of great interest in different scientific disciplines, what has generated a great diversity of definitions that have resulted in a high quantity and heterogeneity of measuring instruments. In addition, there are hardly any instruments that differentiate the sources of social support despite it is considered a vital component. The objective of this investigation is the creation and validation of a questionnaire to measure perceived social support (APIK) in Secondary School. 323 students of Secondary Education of a high school of Vitoria-Gasteiz aged between 12 to 18 years old (M=14.41; DT=1.18) participated in the study, being 128 of them boys (40%) and 195 girls (60%). The questionnaires APIK, AFA-R and HBSC were used. The obtained results of the exploratory factor analysis confirm the three-dimensional structure (family, friends and teachers) of the questionnaire, which offers excellent indexes of internal consistency and reliability. In consequence, the new questionnaire manages to resolve the limitation of other measuring instruments that evaluated the sources separately, did not fit with the theoretical model of social support; were too long, etc.

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This piece of research forms part of the work carried out by the Basque University System's Consolidated Research Group IT934-16, the results of the PPG17/61 research project at the University of the Basque Country and the project EDU2017-83949-P of the State subprogram of Knowledge Generation of the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness.

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