Abstract
Perceived social support: psychometric properties of CASPE questionnaire in urban not institutionalized elderly population. We examined the psychometric properties of a new brief Inventory of Perceived Social Support, called CASPE, in a community based sample of 207 elderly people. The CASPE exhibited acceptable parameter values: internal Alpha consistency (0,65), and split half reliability (0,77). A positive significant correlation with other measurement of Social Support (0,625, p= 0,000), a negative significant correlation measures of stress, (-0,220, p= 0,002) and anxiety (-0,1635, p= 0,020), and the positive evaluation by experts judges (75%) provides indirect validation. The three factor solution found (maximum likelihood with varimax rotation) explained the 62,5% of variance. Thus the CASPE could be improved, this fact notwithstanding it appears to be a valid tool for assessment of Perceived Social Support.
