Psychometric properties of the Social Support Scale
The SSS was originally developed by Peeters et al. [In the original validation of the SSS, the questionnaire was applied to a sample of 41 female secretaries in the Netherlands. A Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was conducted and three components emerged. The first contained the Despite reporting adequate psychometric properties for a limited western population of female secretaries, the restricted sample of the original study, combined with the cultural differences of Aboriginal Australians, limits the generalizability of the results (number of dimensions, magnitude of the loadings) to an Aboriginal population. After the initial validation conducted by Peeters et al. [