Significant Others Scale

Power, Mitchell J.; Champion, Lorna; Aris, S. J.

doi:10.1037/t08442-000

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“…The short version of the scale (SOS: Power & Champion, 1992) was used to measure actual, ideal and discrepancy levels of both emotional and practical support. The corresponding means of the three measures of emotional and practical support provided the additional measures of mean actual support, mean ideal support and mean discrepancy in support.…”

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The role of social support in HIV infection

1995

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SYNOPSISA study was carried out in a group of 91 HIV positive gay men to investigate the relationship between social support, measures of affect and health; the changing nature of support over time; and the causal direction of this relationship. Overall levels of support for this group were found to be moderately high and consistent over 6 months and were associated with greater psychological well-being. Individuals in receipt of quantitatively different levels of support were found to differ on measures of depression, stress, coping efficacy and self-esteem, while individuals in receipt of deficient levels of support were found to be more depressed. However, initial support levels were found to be the most powerful predictors of subsequent support levels. The implications of these findings are discussed.

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1995

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“…The sample was selected on the criteria that the psychologist involved consented to their inclusion; that the clients were current, or had been discharged in the preceding three months; and that they had been out-patients. Forty of these clients (50%) returned an ad hoc questionnaire, based on those developed by Power, Champion and Aris (1988) and Barrera and Ainley (1983). In essence, this "Sources of Help Questionnaire" examined the relationship between four types of help (practical, informational and emotional support, together with positive social interaction) and four different sources of help (relatives, friends, hairdresser and psychologist).…”

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Social Supporters and Behaviour Therapists: Three Studies on the Form and Function of their Help

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Behav. Cogn. Psychother.

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Growing interest in the form and function of "social support" led to three small studies involving comparisons between behaviour therapists and social supporters (hair stylists) in terms of the help they provided with clients' emotional problems. The first compared observations of both groups in interaction with their routine clients, finding some overlap in their speech form (e.g. "reassurance") but that overall the groups provided significantly different forms of help. The second study, based on a questionnaire survey, yielded similar results on the form of interactions between these groups and suggested in addition that their functions were distinctive. Together, these studies indicated that therapists and stylists differed in the form and the function of their helping work with clients. The final study went on to examine how behaviour therapists could help stylists to develop their social support role, finding a significant training effect and evidence of its generalization to clients. Implications drawn include enhancing the distinctive role of behaviour therapists in such "community care" interventions.

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Significant Others Scale

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The role of social support in HIV infection

The role of social support in HIV infection

Social Supporters and Behaviour Therapists: Three Studies on the Form and Function of their Help

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