Validating the Korean Version of the Duke Social Support Index

IF 1.4 4区社会学 Q2 SOCIAL WORK

Journal of Social Service Research Pub Date : 2023-11-09 DOI:10.1080/01488376.2023.2277321

Yongseok Kim, Gyebun Ahn, Minsook Shin, Seungeun Na, Hyunjung Ko

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Abstract

AbstractConsidering the increasing number of older people and one-person households of older people in South Korea as well as the importance of social support among older people, there is a need to develop an instrument that assesses both the structural and functional social support of older people. Accordingly, this is the first study to validate the Korean version of the 10-item Duke Social Support Index (DSSI-10), which is composed of the social interaction and satisfaction with social support subscales. A total of 293 respondents who were over 65 years old and attended welfare centers located in the surrounding area of Seoul participated in this study. We found that the Korean version of the DSSI is a reliable and valid social support instrument that exhibits a two-factor structure like its English version. The DSSI also has the advantage of being able to measure structural and functional social support simultaneously. Developing the Korean version of the DSSI will provide a valuable social support instrument for researchers and practitioners in South Korea, where social support scales measuring both types of social support for older people do not yet exist.Keywords: Social supportDuke Social Support IndexKorean version of the DSSIolder people Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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验证韩国版的杜克社会支持指数

摘要考虑到韩国老年人数量和老年人独居家庭数量的增加以及老年人社会支持的重要性，有必要开发一种工具来评估老年人的结构和功能社会支持。因此，该研究首次验证了由社会互动和社会支持满意度组成的10项杜克社会支持指数(dsi -10)的韩国版。调查对象为293名在首尔周边地区福利中心工作的65岁以上老人。我们发现韩文社会支持量表与英文量表一样呈现双因素结构，是一份可靠有效的社会支持量表。DSSI还具有能够同时测量结构性和功能性社会支持的优势。开发韩国版的DSSI将为韩国的研究人员和从业人员提供一个有价值的社会支持工具，韩国还没有测量老年人两种类型社会支持的社会支持量表。关键词:社会支持杜克大学社会支持指数韩国版dssid老年人披露声明作者未发现潜在的利益冲突。

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Journal of Social Service Research SOCIAL WORK-

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Social Service Research is exclusively devoted to empirical research and its application to the design, delivery, and management of the new social services. The Journal focuses on outcomes-based research and practice, and clearly presents the different types of funded and non-funded state-of-the-art research being carried out in the field. Each issue effectively highlights both the quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Contributors from the national and international social service arenas provide an important and critical basis for management and policy decisions in a wide variety of social service settings.