Psychometric properties of the Family Resilience Assessment Scale: A Singaporean perspective

Abstract

General rightsThis document is made available in accordance with publisher policies. Please cite only the published version using the reference above. Full terms of use are available: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/pure/about/ebr-terms In turn, their ability to cope with multiple demands is likely to affect young people's adaptation. The purpose of this study was to examine psychometric properties of the Family Resilience Assessment Scale (FRAS), an assessment tool that measures the construct of family resilience. A total of 152 young people with epilepsy, aged 13 to 16 years old, from KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore, completed the FRAS along with Rosenberg's Self-Esteem scale. Factor structure of the FRAS was examined. Exploratory factor analysis resulted in a 7-factor solution -Meaning making and Positive outlook; Transcendence and spirituality; Flexibility and Connectedness; Social and economic resources (community); Social and economic resources (neighbors); Clarity and Open emotional expression; Collaborative problem-solving -accounting for 83.0% of the variance. Internal consistency of the scale was high (α=0.92). Family resilience was significantly correlated with higher levels of self-esteem. Our study provides preliminary findings that suggest FRAS is a reliable and valid scale for assessing the construct of family resilience among young people with epilepsy in Singapore.

Individual and family factors associated with self-esteem in young people with epilepsy: A multiple mediation analysis

“…The EFA results for FRAS was previously reported [33] . A seven-factor solution, which reflected dimensions of family resilience put forward by Walsh's conceptual framework [27], accounted for approximately 83% of the total variance with factor loadings ranging from 0.40 to 0.91.…”

The Status of Family Resilience: Effects of Sustainable Livelihoods in Rural China

“…Compared to the theories of Patterson, McCubbin and Vesely mentioned above, Walsh's definition of family resilience not only reflects internal and external factors that relate to family resources, but also reflects fixed and dynamic factors that relate to family adaptability under uncertainty (Walsh 2007). Walsh's theory is widely used in studies of how normal families maintain resilience using both internal and external resources (Rocchi et al 2017;Sixbey 2005;Chew and Haase 2016;Isaacs et al 2018). In studies on China, however, family resilience is not considered as a systematic family function among the majority of families, but as family relationships that exist under specific circumstances such as families with teenagers, families in need of aging support, and families facing medical problems (Li et al 2016;Chen et al 2018;Huang 2018).…”

“…Objective measures reveal the resource status of the family in a specific circumstance but are not guides for studying the majority of families in a time of significant social transition (Bhana and Bachoo et al 2011). A subjective measure based on Walsh's theory, perceived family resilience (PFR), is a tool that not only reveals existing resource status but also shows how normal families react dynamically to adversity using available resources from family structures and social networks (Walsh 2007;Sixbey 2005;Kaya and Arici 2012;Chew and Haase 2016;Li et al 2016;Isaacs 2018). PFR is defined as an individual's perceived attitudes towards his or her family, including that individual's attitude to family beliefs, availability of family's resources, flexibility of the family structure, and cooperativeness within the family (Ungar 2011;Walsh 2016).…”

“…Previous studies have used scales to compare the status of family resilience across the globe, including China. These studies either assess a total score of resilience or score various dimensions of resilience, but ignore how basic family livelihoods affect the distribution of dimensional scores, which may reveal how family resilience is distributed into categories (Kaya and Arici 2012;Rocchi et al 2017;Chew and Haase 2016;Isaacs et al 2018). Studies of China must consider the current rural context, in which rural families experience urbanization and migration, and may have different types of resilience due to significant changes in sustainable livelihoods (Li et al 2012).…”

Development of an eHealth tool for cancer patients: monitoring psychoemotional aspects with the family resilience (FaRe) questionnaire

“…The main limitation of the FRAS is the disagreement between developing authors and subsequent studies on the number of factors and therefore which key processes of family resilience are present in the scale. The FRAS has been recently applied in healthcare contexts to families in a sample of epileptic young adults [ 42 ].…”