Social support questionnaire (F-SozU): Norms of a representative sample

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.