Social connectedness as resource of resilience: Italian validation of the Social Connectedness Scale - Revised Social connectedness come risorsa di resilienza: validazione italiana della Social Connectedness Scale - Revised

Objectves Considering social variables influencing psychological well-being and protecting from development of mental disease, social support received great attention. In recent years the focus shifted toward more general constructs that can account for stability and coherence of the scheme that each person applies to relate to the social word as a whole. The construct of social connectedness seems to be closest to this aim. In this study, we present the validation of the Social Connectedness Scale Revised (SCS-R) developed by Lee et al. on a sample of Italian general population.