How many items does the MSPSS have?
Twelve items on a 7-point scale in three four-item subscales: family, friends and significant other.
مقیاس چندبعدی حمایت اجتماعی ادراکشده زیمت و همکاران (۱۹۸۸) با ۱۲ سؤال و طیف هفتدرجهای؛ میانگین کل و سه زیرمقیاس خانواده، دوستان و فرد مهم (۱ تا ۷) خودکار حساب میشود و در خروجی اکسل و SPSS ستون جدا دارد.
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“پرسشنامه حمایت اجتماعی ادراکشده زیمت (MSPSS)” has 12 questions; every question is required. Question types: Single choice (12). 84 ready-made options across 12 choice questions, all editable in the online version.
Perceived social support from three sources: family, friends and a significant other (a special person in one's life). Rather than counting relationships or help received, it measures how available and adequate the person feels support to be.
| Score | Level | Suggested action |
|---|---|---|
| Mean 1–2.9 | Low support | — |
| Mean 3–5 | Moderate support | — |
| Mean 5.1–7 | High support | — |
Zimet stresses that the MSPSS has no population norms and that norms probably differ by culture, nationality, age and gender. These three ranges are his own suggestion based on the meaning of the response options (a convention, not a cut-off); the other approach he suggests is splitting the sample into equal thirds. Total means are multiples of 1/12, so this template reads below 3 as low and above 5 as high.
Original instrument: Gregory Zimet, Nancy Dahlem, Sara Zimet and Gordon Farley, 1988
Zimet states on his website that the MSPSS is free to use and asks only that the 1988 paper (and any other relevant papers) be credited.
Translated by Porsino; for formal research, cite a validated (normed) Persian version.
Twelve items on a 7-point scale in three four-item subscales: family, friends and significant other.
Each subscale score is the mean of its four items and the total is the mean of all twelve (1 to 7). Some studies report the item sum (12 to 84); this template calculates both.
No. All items are worded positively and a higher score means more perceived support.