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Assessing Family Outcomes: Psychometric Evaluation of the Beach Center Family Quality of Life Scale
Hoffman, Lesa; Marquis, Janet; Poston, Denise; Summers, Jean Ann; Turnbull, Ann
Journal of Marriage and Family, v68 n4 p1069-1083 Nov 2006
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.
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Family (Sociological Unit), Quality of Life, Measures (Individuals), Children, Disabilities, Factor Analysis, Family Relationship, Child Rearing, Test Reliability, Validity, Well Being
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