A comparison of component structures for the Australian inventory of family strengths (AIFS) between an Australian and Malaysian sample
ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: Formal research on family strengths in the Southeast Asian region outside of Australia is scant. Specifically, no known family strengths measures have been developed or adapted for the purpose of measuring family strengths in Malaysia. In the present study, exploratory component...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of comparative family studies 2007-10, Vol.XXXVIII (4), p.588-604 |
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Zusammenfassung: | ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: Formal research on family strengths in the Southeast Asian region outside of Australia is scant. Specifically, no known family strengths measures have been developed or adapted for the purpose of measuring family strengths in Malaysia. In the present study, exploratory component analysis (Gorsuch, 1997) was used to compare the component structures of the Australian Inventory of Family Strengths (AIFS) scale for a rural population of Malay families from Malaysia (n = 200), and those from the original Australian sample (n = 605) as reported in the Australian Family Strengths Research Project (Geggie et al., 2000). Initial findings from principal component analysis with varimax (orthogonal) rotation indicated similar but not identical primary component structures for both samples. Upon further analysis, correlation results indicated that the factor components of the Australian sample did not replicate particularly well for the Malaysian sample, with only one out of four components demonstrating a significant level of invariance. For further research, the authors suggest a Malaysian version of the AIFS to be developed along the same lines as the Australian version of the instrument, i.e., by first using focus group data with Malaysian families to determine the specific constructs of strong families specific to the Malaysian cultural context. // ABSTRACT IN FRENCH: La recherche formelle sur les forces des familles en Asie du Sud-est est, à la différence de l'Australie, plutôt rare. En particulier, on ne connaît pas d'instrument de mesure des forces de familles développé ou adapté afin d'évaluer les forces des familles de Malaisie. Dans la présente étude, on a utilisé l'analyse factorielle exploratoire (Gorsuch, 1997) pour comparer les structures factorielles de l'échelle de l'Inventaire des Forces des Familles d'Australie (AIFS) appliquée à une population rurale de familles malaises de Malaisie (n = 200) avec celles de l'échantillon australien (n = 605) telles que présentées dans le Projet de Recherche sur les Forces des Familles d'Australie (Geggie et al., 2000). Les premiers résultats de l'analyse factorielle principale avec rotation varimax (orthogonale) révèlent une structure factorielle primaire similaire mais pas identique des deux échantillons. Avec une analyse plus fine, les résultats de corrélation ont indiqué que les facteurs composant l'échantillon australien ne se retrouvaient pas à l'identique dans l'échantillon malaisien, où s |
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ISSN: | 0047-2328 |