Study Schiff & Bargal (2000): study IL 1995
- Public
- Participants of self-help and support groups, Jerusalem, Israel, 199?
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 90
- Non Response
- not reported
- Assessment
- Questionnaire: Paper & Pencil Interview (PAPI)
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Satisfaction with group as alternative to loneliness
- Our Classification
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- Error Estimates
- Cronbach's Alpha=.79
- Remarks
- Question concerns helping characteristics of the self-help or support group.
- Distribution
- Different distributions
- Operationalization
- Sefreport on following questions:
a. The group makes me feel I'm not alone with my difficulties
b. The group takes me out of my loneliness
c. A professional could never understand me the way group members can
d. The group helps me evaluate my coping strategies
e. The group makes me feel I can function as well as anyone else
f. Other group members'knowledge and experience helps me as much as the help I could get from professionals
Rated on a numerical scale
Items a,b,c,e,f:after reversing the scale 1=never to 5=always
Item d:1=certainly wrong to 6=certainly right