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The Personal Sociability and Connections Scale (PeSCS): Development and initial assessment at a primary care facility

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  • Emmanouil K Symvoulakis
  • Manolis Linardakis
  • Apostolos Kamekis
  • Myfanwy Morgan
  • Spyridon Klinis

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Purpose: An individual’s lack of social connections and social isolation is often associated with feelings of loneliness which is regarded as having a negative effect on health. This paper describes the development and assessment of a 10 item ‘Personal Sociability and Connections Scale’ (PeSCS) to measure individual’s disposition and accompanying skills to seek out companionship and engage in interpersonal relations. Methods: The study was conducted at a rural primary care unit in Northern Greece. A total of 199 attenders were recruited over a 6-week period in 2020 and questionnaires completed. This informed the 10-items PeSCS that comprises Social, Behavioral, and Emotional components focusing on the expression of social comfort, willingness to share experiences, stories and concepts, and feelings of similarity at first contact. Reliability of the PeSC scale was assessed and the relationship with scale scores examined as an indicator of convergent validity. A multivariate linear regression analysis was performed to examine the relationship of PeSC scale score with the characteristics of participants. Results: Assessment of reliability of PeSC scale produced a Cronbach’s alpha of 0.809. The relationship between components and the total PeSCS scores identified significant correlations ( p  

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  • Emmanouil K Symvoulakis & Manolis Linardakis & Apostolos Kamekis & Myfanwy Morgan & Spyridon Klinis, 2022. "The Personal Sociability and Connections Scale (PeSCS): Development and initial assessment at a primary care facility," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 68(3), pages 639-648, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socpsy:v:68:y:2022:i:3:p:639-648
    DOI: 10.1177/0020764021993510
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