Influences of Social Support on Self- and Other-Affirmation in Junior High School Students

Psychometric Validation of the Japanese Version of the Child and Adolescent Social Support Scale (CASSS) in Early Adolescents1,2

“…Although Shimada (1996) and Murayama et al (2016) have provided convenient measure of perceived social support that consists of at least three types of support (i.e., emotional, tangible, and informational), the number of items corresponding to each type is too limited to assess by the content of support. Hosoda and Tajima (2009) assessed how often children and adolescents received social support from each of the four sources (i.e., father, mother, friend, and teacher), using a sufficient number of items corresponding to three support types. This measurement concept that handles both types and sources concurrently is important for assessing the availability of social support.…”