Objective: The purpose of the study was to examine psychometric properties of the revised form of Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support.

Method: Three samples from a large hospital were used. The samples each consisting of 50 subjects were psychiatry patients, surgery patients and normals samples. The Turkish version of the U.C.L.A. Loneliness Scale, Perceived Social Support from Family and Friends Scale, the Symptom Check List-90-R, and the Beck Hopelessness Scale were used for validity purposes.

Results: The generalisability of the factorial structure was confirmed. The internal consistency figures for the subscales and the total scale were high. The subscales and the total scale score correlated in the expected direction with measures of social support, loneliness, hopelessness, negative social interaction and a symptom check list, particularly in the psychiatry and the surgery samples. Finally, the psychiatry sample perceived the lowest support when compared to the other samples.

Conclusion: These correlations and group comparisons contributed to the construct validity of the MSPSS.