Validación del Cuestionario de Apoyo Social Comunitario en Personas Mayores Chilenas

[EN] The community is a psychosocial resource that promotes well-being in old age. This article presents the validation of the Questionnaire of Community Social Support in a representative sample of elderly Chilean people (n=777). The results of this research confirm the original model of three fact...

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Autores: Gallardo Peralta, Lorena P., Gálvez-Nieto, José Luis
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:dnet:digitalcsic_::01aae68fd2fcc44f555e59dcc119fe9b
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/219881
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Community social support
Elderly people
Questionnaire
Psychometric properties
Apoyo social comunitario
Personas mayores
Cuestionario
Propiedades psicométricas
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Sumario:[EN] The community is a psychosocial resource that promotes well-being in old age. This article presents the validation of the Questionnaire of Community Social Support in a representative sample of elderly Chilean people (n=777). The results of this research confirm the original model of three factors (Gracia, Herrero, & Musitu, 2002), namely: community integration, community participation and social support from formal systems. The three factors explained together 82% of the variance of the construct. This questionnaire constitutes a tool for gerontological social intervention in order to prevent the isolation or lack of social integration of the elderly