%0 Journal Article
%T Development and validation of a Chinese family strengths measure for family services intervention in Hong Kong
%A Jerf W. K. YEUNG
%A Silvia S. W. LEE
%A Emily M. S. LEE
%A John DeFrain
%J Revista de Cercetare £¿i Interven£¿ie Social£¿
%D 2012
%I Expert Projects
%X This article reports the development and validation of a family strengths measure, the Chinese Family Strengths Measure [CFSM], used for family social service and practice interventions in a Chinese context. Both exploratory factor analysis and hierarchical-order confirmatory factor analysis verified the 28-item CFSM, which demonstrated adequate construct validity and convergent validity. In addition, the CFSM showed good internal consistency by Cronbach alpha and Guttman split-half reliability tests, and had adequate inter-correlation qualities for its respective dimensions by inter-item correlation and mean corrected item-total correlation tests. Implications for administration of this newly-constructed measure in family service setting are briefly suggested.
%K family strengths
%K measures
%K validation
%K Chinese culture
%U http://www.rcis.ro/images/documente/rcis36_01.pdf