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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 26, No. 8, 971-986 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/01461672002610007

An Interpersonal Conceptualization and Quantification of Social Support Transactions

Krista K. Trobst

Gerontology Research Center, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, ktrobst{at}aol.com

The present article applies Cobb’s original formulation of the social support construct and elaborates a theoretical and empirical framework employing the interpersonal circumplex model that has proved useful for elucidating concepts and measures from a variety of research traditions. In a series of studies, 1,040 undergraduate students completed self-report questionnaires indicating their likelihood of performing various support actions. A circumplex structure was obtained that was both substantively and structurally auspicious and that provided a taxonomic framework within which 12 extant social support subscales and 15 personality characteristics were clarified. The Support Actions Scale Circumplex (SAS-C) assesses a broad range of social support behavior, including both the potentially protective and deleterious effects of interpersonal transactions.


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