The Brief Family Relationship Scale
The Relationship dimension of the Family Environment Scale, which consists of the Cohesion, Expressiveness, and Conflict subscales, measures a person’s perception of the quality of his or her family relationship functioning. This study investigates an adaptation of the Relationship dimension of the...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/1073191111425856 2024-09-09T19:39:14+00:00 The Brief Family Relationship Scale A Brief Measure of the Relationship Dimension in Family Functioning Fok, Carlotta Ching Ting Allen, James Henry, David Team, People Awakening 2011 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1073191111425856 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1073191111425856 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/1073191111425856 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Assessment volume 21, issue 1, page 67-72 ISSN 1073-1911 1552-3489 journal-article 2011 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/1073191111425856 2024-08-19T04:28:08Z The Relationship dimension of the Family Environment Scale, which consists of the Cohesion, Expressiveness, and Conflict subscales, measures a person’s perception of the quality of his or her family relationship functioning. This study investigates an adaptation of the Relationship dimension of the Family Environment Scale for Alaska Native youth. The authors tested the adapted measure, the Brief Family Relationship Scale, for psychometric properties and internal structure with 284 12- to 18-year-old predominately Yup’ik Eskimo Alaska Native adolescents from rural, remote communities. This non-Western cultural group is hypothesized to display higher levels of collectivism traditionally organized around an extended kinship family structure. Results demonstrate a subset of the adapted items function satisfactorily, a three-response alternative format provided meaningful information, and the subscale’s underlying structure is best described through three distinct first-order factors, organized under one higher order factor. Convergent and discriminant validity of the Brief Family Relationship Scale was assessed through correlational analysis. Article in Journal/Newspaper eskimo* Alaska SAGE Publications Assessment 21 1 67 72 |
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The Relationship dimension of the Family Environment Scale, which consists of the Cohesion, Expressiveness, and Conflict subscales, measures a person’s perception of the quality of his or her family relationship functioning. This study investigates an adaptation of the Relationship dimension of the Family Environment Scale for Alaska Native youth. The authors tested the adapted measure, the Brief Family Relationship Scale, for psychometric properties and internal structure with 284 12- to 18-year-old predominately Yup’ik Eskimo Alaska Native adolescents from rural, remote communities. This non-Western cultural group is hypothesized to display higher levels of collectivism traditionally organized around an extended kinship family structure. Results demonstrate a subset of the adapted items function satisfactorily, a three-response alternative format provided meaningful information, and the subscale’s underlying structure is best described through three distinct first-order factors, organized under one higher order factor. Convergent and discriminant validity of the Brief Family Relationship Scale was assessed through correlational analysis. |
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