Journal article
Assessing Family Outcomes: Psychometric Evaluation of the Beach Center Family Quality of Life Scale
Journal of marriage and family, Vol.68(4), pp.1069-1083
11/2006
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2006.00314.x
Abstract
There is currently a lack of reliable scales with which to assess the construct of family quality of life, particularly for families who have children with disabilities. The current work presents 2 studies, including a total of 488 families with children with disabilities, which were conducted to complete the development of a scale to assess family quality of life. The measure was refined through confirmatory factor analyses into 25 items that assess 5 domains of Family Quality of Life: Family Interaction, Parenting, Emotional Well-Being, Physical/Material Well-Being, and Disability-Related Support. Each subscale was found to be unidimensional and internally consistent. An initial examination of test-retest reliability and convergent validity is also presented. Implications for future research, scale use, and policy are discussed. © National Council on Family Relations, 2006.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Assessing Family Outcomes: Psychometric Evaluation of the Beach Center Family Quality of Life Scale
- Creators
- Lesa Hoffman - Pennsylvania State UniversityJanet Marquis - University of KansasDenise Poston - University of KansasJean Ann Summers - University of KansasAnn Turnbull - University of Kansas
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of marriage and family, Vol.68(4), pp.1069-1083
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Inc
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2006.00314.x
- ISSN
- 0022-2445
- eISSN
- 1741-3737
- Number of pages
- 15
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/2006
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Quantitative Foundations
- Record Identifier
- 9984371078902771
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