ARTÍCULO
Propiedades psicométricas del cuestionario de apoyo social funcional duke-UNK-11 en una muestra de adultos ecuatorianos
Fecha
2021Autor
Arias Medina, William Paul
Cabrera Velez, Maria Marcela
Peña Contreras, Eva Karina
Aguilar Sizer, Monica Elisa
Lima Castro, Sandra Eugenia
Bueno Pacheco, Gladys Alexandra
Institución
Resumen
Social support is highly relevant to health and well-being. For this reason, it is essential to
have reliable instruments to evaluate it. The objective of the study is to evaluate the factorial
structure, reliability and validity of the Spanish version of the Duke-UNK-11 Functional
Social Support questionnaire (Bellón, Delgado, De Dios, & Lardelli, 1996); and assess its
suitability in the Ecuadorian context. The scale was applied to a sample of 535 adults residing
in the city of Cuenca-Ecuador. The data fit the first-order two-factor scale related to the
subscales of confidential support and affective support. Criterion validity was assessed by the
Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (EAR) and the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS). In general, the
results showed that Duke-UNK-11 is a short and efficient data collection instrument with
adequate internal consistency, excellent discrimination indices for each of the items, high
factor loadings, which can be applied in the Ecuadorian context to facilitate research