Caracterização do apoio social em estudantes universitários brasileiros

Abstract

The study on how the support toward brazilian university students was characterized was done through the aplication of the Norbeck Social Support Questionnaire (NSSQ). Based on Kahn's definition (1979) for the social support, the questionnaire intends to measure three basic components of this psycho-social variable: affect, affirmation and aid. The conception of convoy, also proposed by Kahn, had been measures through three attributes of lhe individual network: number of people forming the network: duration of the relationship and frequency of the getting in touch with the members of the network. The scores for the three functional components of the social support and the three attributs of the network were grouped according to the categories described by the subjects for each person, being a component for his network. The data are described for the network as a whole and for the subscales and their specific variables. This research has also been compared to the study undertaken with american university students, by Norbeck: Lindsey & Carrieri (1982).