Anderson T B, McCulloch B J
Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
J Gerontol. 1993 May;48(3):S133-42.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the factor structure of social support among older spouses. The sample consisted of 298 older marital dyads who participated in the Aging Couples Study. Confirmatory factor analysis techniques were used to examine conjugal support in a series of nested measurement models at the couple and individual levels. Two research questions were addressed: (a) the viability of conjugal support as a couple's construct, and (b) the dimensionality of social support within the marital dyad. Results showed that conjugal support was a husband/wife, rather than a couple, construct. Findings also showed that conjugal support was a multidimensional construct consisting of three factors: instrumental support, emotional support, and confiding. Moreover, husbands and wives perceived the dimensions of conjugal support differently.
本研究的目的是调查老年配偶间社会支持的因素结构。样本包括298对参与老年夫妻研究的老年婚姻伴侣。验证性因素分析技术用于在夫妻和个体层面的一系列嵌套测量模型中检验配偶支持。研究了两个问题：（a）配偶支持作为夫妻结构的可行性，以及（b）婚姻伴侣中社会支持的维度。结果表明，配偶支持是一种丈夫/妻子的结构，而非夫妻结构。研究结果还表明，配偶支持是一个多维结构，由三个因素组成：工具性支持、情感支持和倾诉。此外，丈夫和妻子对配偶支持的维度有不同的认知。
