Revised NSSQ

Based on the findings from the two psychometric articles (Gigliotti and Samuels, 2011; Gigliotti and colleagues, 2014) we revised the NSSQ.

Specifically, the following changes were made;

A not applicable category was added to allow participants to refrain from rating any network member on any of the 6 social support questions. This allows participants to temporarily "drop" a network member if they feel the question does not pertain to them. For example, one might wish to list one's children as network members but feel the questions about agreeing/confiding do not pertain to this relationship.
The aid questions were revised by deleting the examples.
The format was changed to allow:

rating each network member on each question before listing the next network member
paper and pencil completion with scan-able features for easy data entry
online completion

Please see the two articles mentioned above. They are available for free download at the bottom of the Original NSSQ web page.

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