Social Support Of The Muslim:Structure And Measurement

social support of the muslim is not only a core concept of Community Psychology, but also is an important concept of religion Psychology.Review foreign religious social support study found, most of the studies are in the Christian background. Finally, the selected subjects are Christians, involving other religious study less. While the existing religious social support scale dimension is not unified, uneven, some good and some bad, and scale of the application range is small, and samples the under-representation of selected samples, most choose to elderly subjects, therefore the results difficult to popularize, practicability is poor; and domestic religious social support research at the preliminary development state, basically use foreign existing scale measurement, the measure tools still remain at further development.Based on the existing research and unresolved issues, this research is based on the existing literature review, to Muslims as subjects, combined with semi open interview process results, presented his own theory model of the conception, the selection of the scale compilation of key words; then, on the basis of this using a variety of statistical methods and analysis, work out" the Muslim social support scale"; later, test the validity and reliability of the scale, and effective test of ordinary die standard, for our country’s Muslim social support was measured for the localization of the measuring tool; finally, in" the Muslim social support scale" as a measurement tool, analysis western Muslim social support status and possible influence factors. The study on the Muslim social support the operational definition and structure are as follows:in Islam, Muslims can be perceived from the church and other Church provides emotional, physical, information support, and in the face of difficulties, the individual can be expected from inside the church support. The Muslim social support contains the church involvement, enacted support, perceived support and predicted support four of the support elements.Through a series of analysis that consist of qualitative analysis, exploratory and confirmatory factory analysis. At last we get the scale which has twenty-one items,"Church involvement" has five items,"enacted support" has five items,"perceived support" has five items "predicted support" has six items. After being tested lots of reliability and validity analysis, the major indexes of reliability and validity have got the Psychometric demand. The datas show the internal consistency reliability is0.932, and each subscale’s internal Consistency reliability are0.892、0.835、0.827and0.861;The half-split reliability is0.725, and each subscale’s half-split reliability are0.829、0.843、0.854and0.866; After two-week, its retest reliability is0.716.Then, the study explores the actual state and influence factors of385Musilms.The results show the score of scale and subscales are round4.Next, the other results show:(1) the social support of protestants has significant difference on age, education, marital status, faith time.(2)The regression analysis displays that only two variables enter regression equation, they are marital status and faith time.