Rhodes Scott D, Daniel Jason, Song Eun-Young, Alonzo Jorge, Downs Mario, Reboussin Beth A
Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, USA.
Am J Health Behav. 2013 Sep;37(5):620-8. doi: 10.5993/AJHB.37.5.5.
To explore the factor structure of the Index of Sojourner's Social Support (ISSS) within a sample of Spanish-speaking immigrant Latino men.
We explored the factor structure and calculated correlations to examine associations between the ISSS subscales and self-esteem, mastery, and depression.
Mean age of the 244 participants was 26.9 years old and most were from Mexico, had less than high school educational attainment, and worked in construction. The ISSS did not perform as well as expected.
Although the ISSS may prove useful as we begin to conceptualize the role and meaning of social support within the context of immigration, more research is needed to develop meaningful measures of constructs among immigrant Latinos in the United States.
在讲西班牙语的移民拉丁裔男性样本中探究旅居者社会支持指数（ISSS）的因子结构。
我们探究了因子结构并计算相关性，以检验ISSS分量表与自尊、掌控感和抑郁之间的关联。
244名参与者的平均年龄为26.9岁，大多数来自墨西哥，教育程度低于高中，从事建筑工作。ISSS的表现不如预期。
尽管在我们开始构思移民背景下社会支持的作用和意义时，ISSS可能会被证明是有用的，但仍需要更多研究来开发针对美国移民拉丁裔中有意义的构念测量方法。
