Open AccessMultidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support in Indonesian adolescent disaster survivors: A psychometric evaluation
Author(s) -
Okki Dhona Laksmita,
Min Huey Chung,
Yuan Mei Liao,
Pi Chen Chang
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
plos one
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.99
H-Index - 332
ISSN - 1932-6203
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pone.0229958
Subject(s) - scale (ratio) , reliability (semiconductor) , construct validity , social support , indonesian , psychology , clinical psychology , measurement invariance , psychometrics , validity , structural equation modeling , applied psychology , social psychology , confirmatory factor analysis , statistics , mathematics , geography , physics , cartography , linguistics , philosophy , power (physics) , quantum mechanics
Background Social support plays an important role in adolescents’ mental health and well-being, and even more so for disaster survivors. To measure the level of social support, one needs an appropriate tool to produce valid and reliable results; therefore, we aimed to measure the invariance across gender groups, and analyze the construct validity and reliability of the Indonesian version of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS), a social support measurement tool which was theoretically constructed and has been well validated in many countries with various cultures and backgrounds. Methods A school-based assessment was conducted in junior and senior high schools in a post-disaster setting in Yogyakarta Province, Indonesia. We analyzed 299 adolescent survivors of a volcanic eruption, aged 12~18 years who completed a 12-item Indonesian version of the MSPSS. Results The factorial validity confirmed the three-factor structure of the scale (Family, Friends, and Significant Others) which met all of the criteria of parameter indices and provided evidence of high internal consistency reliability. The three-level measurement of invariance, which consisted of configural, metric, and scalar invariance, also performed very well across gender groups with our data and corresponded to the recommended parameters. Our composite reliability values were all fine (>0.7) and indicated that the items in the same construct were strongly correlated and reliable. Conclusions The Indonesian version of the MSPSS was shown to be a valid, reliable, theoretically constructed, and applicable instrument for adolescent disaster survivors.