Emotional and tangible social support in a German population-based sample: Development and validation of the Brief Social Support Scale (BS6)

• Manfred E. Beutel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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• Elmar Brähler,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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• Jörg Wiltink,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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• Matthias Michal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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• Eva M. Klein,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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• Claus Jünger,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical Clinic for Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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• Philipp S. Wild,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Preventive Cardiology and Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine 2, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany, Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany, German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), partner site Rhine Main, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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• Thomas Münzel,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Preventive Cardiology and Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine 2, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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• Maria Blettner,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics (IMBEI), University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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• Karl Lackner,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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• Stefan Nickels,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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• Ana N. Tibubos

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: AnaNanette.Tibubos@unimedizin-mainz.de

  Affiliation Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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