Abstract
The objectives of this study are to develop a self-report scale to measure social support, evaluate its core structure and study various psychometric properties in the development of this scale. The entire process of developing and validating the scale is described in three phases. These comprise item writing and content validation in Phase I, validity testing in Phase II and reliability testing in Phase III. A total of 1,414 participants were included in the study. An exploratory factor analysis was run using IBM SPSS 23. Psychometric properties of the Psycho-social Support Scale were evaluated by Cronbach’s alpha index of internal reliability. The implications of the scale are discussed.
