Social Support was assessed with the Medical Outcomes Study MOSSocialial Support Survey; a 19-item scale measuring tangible support, affection, positive social interaction, and emotional or informational support.
It measures four functional components of social support: 1) tangible support; 2) affection; 3) positive social interaction; and 4) emotional or informational support.
Social support can be provided in the form of emotional support such as providing love and affection, tangible support that is provided by giving practical assistance with a task, and informational support that is provided by giving guidance or advice [ 7].
The best way to do so is with obvious, tangible gestures of affection.
Her soothing voice and blue-eyed gaze touched with a loving caress, so tangible were the affections she held in her heart.
"The level of Big Red enthusiasm surely was at an all-time high, and Cornellians expressed this affection in tangible ways – as active participants, volunteers and donors," said Jim Mazza '88, associate vice president of alumni affairs.
There's little evidence for humans actually liking cats (apart from, presumably, appreciating the benefits of a mouse-free granary) for another 4,000 years, when the ancient Egyptians began to leave tangible evidence of their affection, for example, by providing elaborate burials, complete with a symbolic bowl of milk, for favoured pet cats.
The gift serves as a tangible representation of your affection and support of the marriage.
It incorporated four subscales measuring tangible social support (range 0 16), affection (0 12), positive social interaction (0 16) and emotional/informational support (0 32).
