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Psychometric Analysis of the Family Empowerment ScaleNIRBHAY N. SINGH received his PhD from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is a professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the Medical College of Virginia, a clinical professor of psychology at the Virginia Commonwealth University, and director of research at the Commonwealth Institute for Child and Family Studies, Richmond, Virginia. His research interests are in psychopharmacology, developmental disabilities, and emotional or behavioral disorders of children and adolescents. Address: Nirhhay N. Singh, Department of Psychiatry, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, PO Box 980489, Richmond, VA 23298-0489.
W. JOHN CURTIS received his MA in clinical psychology from Michigan State University. He is a research associate at the Commonwealth Institute for Child and Family Studies in Richmond. His research interests are in mental health service delivery systems for children and their families, developmental psychopathology, and resilience of children at risk.
CYNTHIA R. ELLIS received her MD from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. She is an assistant professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. Her research interests are in pediatric psychopharmacology, behavioral pediatrics, developmental disabilities, and ecobehavioral analysis.
MARY W. NICHOLSON received her BS from Ithaca College in New York. She is currently a doctoral student in psychology at the Virginia Commonwealth University.
TERRI M. VILLANI received her BA from New York University in New York. She is currently a doctoral student in clinical psychology at Hofstra University, New York.
HOLLIS A. WECHSLER received her BA from Wake Forest University in North Carolina. She is a research assistant at the Commonwealth Institute for Child and Family Studies in Richmond. The Family Empowerment Scale (FES), a 34-item rating scale, was developed to measure empowerment in families with children who have emotional, behavioral, or mental disorders. This study investigated the psychometric characteristics of the FES in a sample of 228 families whose children had serious emotional disturbance or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. The families rated each item on a 5-point Likert-type rating scale, and the ratings were subjected to a number of psychometric analyses. The results of factor analyses, with varimax rotation, provided a conceptually meaningful four-factor solution. Congruence between the four factors derived in this study and the corresponding factors in the original FES psychometric analysis was high, with congruence coefficients ranging between .88 and .98. Obtained internal consistency estimates of reliability ranged from .78 to .89 for the four subscales, and the split-half estimate of reliability for the FES was .93. The results indicate that the FES has robust psychometric properties and may be useful in assessing the empowerment status of families whose children are handicapped.
Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, Vol. 3, No. 2,
85-91 (1995) This article has been cited by other articles:
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