Measure of perceived social support during adolescence (APIK)
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European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education 9(2) : 83-94 (2019)
Resumen
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.