FAMILY LIFE SATISFACTION SCALE-TURKISH VERSION: PSYCHOMETRIC EVALUATION
SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND PERSONALITY, cilt.44, sa.4, ss.631-639, 2016 (SSCI, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 44 Sayı: 4
- Basım Tarihi: 2016
- Doi Numarası: 10.2224/sbp.2016.44.4.631
- Dergi Adı: SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND PERSONALITY
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.631-639
- Anahtar Kelimeler: family life satisfaction, Family Life Satisfaction Scale, scale reliability, scale validity, family relations, life satisfaction, Turkey, FIT INDEXES, RELIABILITY, VALIDITY, CONFLICT, WORK
- Akdeniz Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır
Özet
My aim was to adapt the Family Life Satisfaction Scale, which was developed by Barraca, Yarto and Olea (2000), for use with a Turkish sample and to examine the adapted scale's reliability and validity. In Study 1, I administered the translated scale to 441 participants from a range of age groups, and in Study 2 the finalized scale's reliability and validity were assessed with a separate sample (N = 506). Further, in Study 3, I examined the convergent validity of the FLSS by comparing it with the Satisfaction With Life Scale, in a sample of 436 Turkish students in grades 9-12. The results of confirmatory factor analysis verified the scale's single-factor model, and exploratory factor analysis supported the single-dimension structure of the original scale. Tests for convergent validity yielded significant correlations between life satisfaction and scale scores. Both internal consistency reliability and composite reliability were .95. Corrected item-total correlations ranged from .48 to .75. Thus, results of all analyses indicated that the Family Life Satisfaction Scale, as adapted, is valid and reliable for use with Turkish samples.