. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Community Psychol. 2012 Jul 12;40(6):631–644. doi: 10.1002/jcop.20521

Table 2.

Levels and Sources of Social Support and Differences between Caregiver Groups

	All caregivers (n=1599)	Caregivers of AIDS-orphaned children (n=359)	Caregivers of other-orphaned children (n=171)	Caregivers of non-orphaned children (n=1069)
Overall levels of social support (M, SD)	63.6 (13.2)	60.2 (13.9)_a	64.0 (13.6) _b	64.7 (12.8) _b ^**
Support from family (M, SD)	22.9 (5.2)	21.8 (5.9) _a	23.2 (5.3) _a	23.2 (4.9) _b ^**
Support from friends (M, SD)	17.3 (8.2)	15.9 (8.4) _a	17.7 (8.6) _a	17.8 (8.1) _b ^**
Support from significant others (M, SD)	23.4 (4.8)	22.5 (5.5) _a	23.2 (5.3) _a	23.7 (4.5) _b ^**

Note. M = mean; SD = standard deviation.

Different subscripts denote significant differences in reported social support between groups in the Tukey comparison (p<0.01).

^**

p > 0.01

P-values are associated with one-way analysis of variance.