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Significant Others Scale
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About Significant Others Scale
Significant others scale (SOS; Power et al., 1988). It is a measure of social support assessing the perceived emotional and practical support as well as the ideal amount of support that an individual would like to receive. It combines structural features (i.e. whether significant relationships do exist and who they are with) and functional characteristics (i.e. the type of social support). It thus allows calculation of the total social support score and the discrepancy scores (the actual support score minus the ideal support score). The scale has been reported to have a good test-retest reliability of between 0.73 and 0.83. Its criterion validity was established comparing three independent groups of depressed people, one nondepressive group of psychiatric cases and a symptom-free group.
The depressed group differed significantly on the SOS in comparison to the other groups in terms of ideal support, where they had higher ratings of what would be ideal, and a higher level of discrepancy between the support they perceived and the support they wanted (Power et al., 1988). The short version of the scale used in the present study allows participants to identify up to five close relationships. It has four questions each with the perceived and ideal parts which are asked for each of the identified relationships. However, participants are encouraged to ask for additional sheets if they have more than five significant others in their life. Responses were rated from 3 points Likert scale 0 = not at all to 2 = always. This scale has been translated into Urdu (Haqqani, 2014) for use with Pakistani adolescents.
Significant Others Scale
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