Revision of Social Support Scale for Chinese Military Personnel

Objective: To revise a social support scale for Chinese military personnel.Methods: 1620 Chinese military personnel completed the social support scale revised through intensive interviews,open-end questionnaire and literature reviews;and they also fulfilled questionnaires on anxiety and depression.Results: The Cronbach’s α of the revised version of social support scale was 0.62,and the test-retest reliability after two weeks was 0.91.The correlations of the subscale of subject support,object support,and the use of social support with the total score were 0.81,0.79,and 0.65 respectively;and the correlations of the scale with the scores of depression,anxiety were-0.39,-0.35 respectively.Conclusion: The revised version of Social Support Scale for Chinese Military Personnel achieves satisfactory reliability and validity,and could be used as a measure of social support for military personnel.