A widely used German self-report questionnaire for the assessment of social
support (F-SozU by Sommer & Fydrich, 1989, 1991) is available as a regular
version with 54 items as well as a 22-item short form. For the present stu
dy, a representative sample of the German population (N = 2 179) was invest
igated using the long version of the F-SozU. The global scale and the foul
major scales (emotional support, instrumental support, social integration,
and social strain) show high values of internal consistency (Cronbach alpha
between .81 and .93). Percentile tables are presented for all major scales
as Hell as for the global score and the short form. The overlap of the dif
ferent aspects of social support as indicated by scale intercorrelations is
discussed.