TY - JOUR
T1 - Mexican Validation of the MOS Questionnaire on Perceived Social Support in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic
AU - Del Carpio Ovando, Perla Shiomara
AU - Estrada, Erika Robles
AU - Hernández, Yazmín Quintero
AU - Gallegos, Miguel
AU - Galvagno, Lucas G.Gago
AU - Caycho-Rodríguez, Tomás
AU - Vilca, Lindsey W.
AU - Martino, Pablo
AU - Cervigni, Mauricio
AU - Razumovskiy, Anastasia
AU - Portillo, Nelson
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a very negative impact on people’s overall mental health and psychosocial well-being, but the study of available social support to cope with such an adverse situation has received hardly any attention. Objective: To exa-mine the psychometric properties of the MOS Perceived Social Support Questionnaire among the Mexican population in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: Non-experimental cross-sectional study. A sociodemographic questionnaire and the Medical Outcomes Study were applied in a non-probabilistic sample. A total of 898 people from different regions in Mexico, 258 males and 640 females, participated in the study in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Results: The analysis yielded a bi-factor model with two factors, Emotional/informational support and Tangible support, with satisfactory goodness of fit indices. Reliability was adequate with a high hierarchical omega coefficient, as well as in the factors. Likewise, the H coefficient was adequate in the general factor and its dimensions. Conclusions: Results showed that the scale is a valid and reliable measure of perceived social support among the Mexican population.
AB - Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a very negative impact on people’s overall mental health and psychosocial well-being, but the study of available social support to cope with such an adverse situation has received hardly any attention. Objective: To exa-mine the psychometric properties of the MOS Perceived Social Support Questionnaire among the Mexican population in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: Non-experimental cross-sectional study. A sociodemographic questionnaire and the Medical Outcomes Study were applied in a non-probabilistic sample. A total of 898 people from different regions in Mexico, 258 males and 640 females, participated in the study in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Results: The analysis yielded a bi-factor model with two factors, Emotional/informational support and Tangible support, with satisfactory goodness of fit indices. Reliability was adequate with a high hierarchical omega coefficient, as well as in the factors. Likewise, the H coefficient was adequate in the general factor and its dimensions. Conclusions: Results showed that the scale is a valid and reliable measure of perceived social support among the Mexican population.
KW - COVID-19
KW - Confirmatory factor analysisperceived social support
KW - MOS
KW - goodness-of-fit indices
KW - reliability
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U2 - 10.14349/sumapsi.2022.v29.n2.2
DO - 10.14349/sumapsi.2022.v29.n2.2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85148498253
SN - 0121-4381
VL - 29
SP - 100
EP - 109
JO - Suma Psicologica
JF - Suma Psicologica
IS - 2
ER -
