Secco M L, Moffatt M E
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
J Adolesc Health. 1994 Nov;15(7):517-27. doi: 10.1016/1054-139x(94)90134-o.
This article reviews the theories and instruments used in 14 studies that measured social support levels of adolescent mothers. Two general trends were revealed, a tendency for researchers to: (1) avoid stating their theoretical perspective of social support and (2) develop new social support instruments rather than take advantage of those already in existence. Strategies are offered to match the social support theories and instruments with the particular study purpose and outcome variables. Use of both an established and a new social support instrument within the same study is recommended as a method of providing concurrent validation for the new instrument and promoting comparability across studies in different situations. Assessment of confounding among variables, construct overlap between measures, and the validity of social support and outcome instruments with adolescent mothers will promote a more accurate description of the role of social support in adolescent mothering.
本文回顾了14项测量青少年母亲社会支持水平的研究中所使用的理论和工具。揭示了两个总体趋势，即研究人员倾向于：（1）避免阐述其社会支持的理论视角；（2）开发新的社会支持工具，而非利用现有的工具。文中提供了一些策略，以使社会支持理论和工具与特定的研究目的及结果变量相匹配。建议在同一研究中同时使用一种既定的社会支持工具和一种新的社会支持工具，作为对新工具进行同步验证以及促进不同情境下各项研究之间可比性的一种方法。对变量间的混杂因素、测量方法之间的结构重叠以及针对青少年母亲的社会支持和结果工具的有效性进行评估，将有助于更准确地描述社会支持在青少年母亲角色中的作用。
