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Social Provisions Scale (SPS)
Source: Iowa State UniversityFormat: PDFAnnotation: The Social Provisions Scale was developed to assess the provisions of social relationships. These provisions reflect what people receive from relationships with other people. The six provisions are guidance (advice or information), reliable alliance (assurance that others can be counted on in times of stress), reassurance of worth (recognition of one's competence), attachment (emotional closeness), social integration (a sense of belonging to a group of friends), and opportunity for nurturance (providing assistance to others). The goal of this measure is to examine the degree to which a respondent's social relationships provide various dimensions of social support. This resource was identified by the NIH Disaster Research Response Program (DR2) for researchers looking for pre- and post-disaster data collection instruments.
Ease of Use in Disaster Setting: Easy
Flesch-Kincaid Reading Level: Grade 5.4
Population: All/Anyone
Length: 24 questions
Time to Complete: 5 minutes
Administered by: Self Administered/Self Report, Lay Interviewer, Specialist/Doctor/Expert
Language(s): English, French, and Urdu...[See more] [See less]Type: Guideline/Assessment ToolAccess Notes: Free/Publicly Available
Citation(s):
Chan CS, Rhodes JE. Religious coping, posttraumatic stress, psychological distress, and posttraumatic growth among female survivors four years after Hurricane Katrina. J Trauma Stress. 2013 Apr;26(2):257-65. Epub 2013 Mar 25. PubMed PMID: 23529889. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23529889. Subscription required.
Russell D, Cutrona CE, Rose J, Yurko K. Social and emotional loneliness: an examination of Weiss's typology of loneliness. J Pers Soc Psychol. 1984 Jun;46(6):1313-21. PubMed PMID: 6737214. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6737214. Subscription required.
Cutrona CE. Social support and stress in the transition to parenthood. J Abnorm Psychol. 1984 Nov;93(4):378-90. PubMed PMID: 6512084. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6512084. Subscription required.
Contact information:
Contact person: David R. Russell, Professor of English
Address: Iowa State University, 2300 Palmer Building, Ames, Iowa 50011
Phone: 515-294-4724
Fax: 515-294-6814
Email: drrussel@iastate.edu
For more information:
Institution: National Cancer Institute, U.S National Institutes of Health
Web: http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/brp/Includes Research Tools: Yes.ID: 9004. From: Disaster Lit®a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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