Study Hernandez Plaza et al. (2005): study ES 2000
- Public
- Moroccan immigrants, Spain, 2000
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 100
- Non Response
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
Face to face interviews were conducted by the first author of this article, with the collaboration of seven Moroccan mediators who translated the questions into Arabic when necessary, and gave access to the sample
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Perceived availability of material support
- Our Classification
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- Error Estimates
- Perceived availability of material support by natives: Cronbach's alpha = 0,76 Perceived availability of material support by fellow immigrants: Cronbach's alpha = 0,50
- Remarks
- This measure is included in the Arizona Social Support Interview Schedule (Barrera, 1980). More specifically, the version adapted for African immigrants living in Spain by Martinez, Garcia and Maya (1993) and Hernández (2003) was used. This instrument examines diverse structural and functional characteristics of social support networks.
- Distribution
- Perceived availability of material support by natives: M = 0,46; SD = 1,10, by fellow immigrants: M = 3,02; SD = 2,08
- Operationalization
- Perceived availability of material support is measured by two open items, where respondents enumerate available sources of support in two areas:
- material support
- physical assistance.
A by natives
B by fellow immigrants
Observed Relation with Happiness
- Social network size
- Number of natives in the social network
- Number of immigrants in the social network
- Number of men in the social network
- Number of women in the social network
- Perceived availabilty of emotional social support
- Perceived availability of informative support
- Perceived need for social support
- Perceived sufficiency of social support provided by natives
- Perceived sufficiency of social support provided by immigrants
- Utilization of social support provided by natives
- Utilization of social support provided by immigrants
- Satisfaction with emotional support by natives
- Satisfaction with emotional support by immigrants
- Satisfaction with informative support by natives
- Satisfaction with informative support by immigrants
- Satisfaction with material support by natives
- Satisfaction with material support by immigrants
- Perception of ethnic prejudice
- Gender
- Age
- Time living in the country