The The Validity and Reliability of the Brief Family Relationship Scale (BFRS) for Applying in Thai Youth The psychometric properties of the Brief Family Relationship Scale (BFRS) for Applying in Thai Youth
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Objective: To examine the psychometric properties of the Brief Family Relationship Scale (BFRS) for applying in Thai youth -Thai version.
Methods: The instrument development research was conducted based on the original scale with 19 items in two phases. It’s a Likert scale with 4 answer choices. Phase 1 encompassed the scale translation and readability testing of each question. Phase 2 included evaluation of the BFRS psychometric properties through field-testing with 201 Thai youth 11 - 18 years old in North, Central, South, and North-East using: 1) items analysis, 2) power of discrimination by technique 25%, 3) construct validity through exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis, and convergent validity, and 4) reliability coefficient alpha of Cronbach.
Results: Overall, good item discrimination power was shown for all nineteen items. There were 19 items that had an item-total correlation of at least 0.4 (r ≥ 0.4). Reliability analysis showed a Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 0.89. Exploratory factor analysis revealed three components with eigen-value more than 1: family cohesion, family expressiveness, and family conflict. The nineteen items had factor loadings ranking from 0.51 to 0.82, and displayed a total variance of 52.7%. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the model of cohesion, expressiveness, and conflict were relevant to the empirical data (χ2= 71.74, df = 110, GFI = 0.97, AGFI = 0.94, RMSEA =0.000). Convergent validity between the BFRS and the Chulalongkorn Family Inventory (CFI) showed high correlation coefficient (r = 0.85, p < .001).
Conclusion: The BFRS has high construct validity and high reliability. Therefore, the BFRS can be used as a scale of family relationship assessment in Thai youth.
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