Development of a Korean Family Attitude Scale: A Pilot Study

• Published in: Journal of nursing measurement Vol. 21; no. 3; pp. 415 - 425
• Main Authors: Lee, Heeyoung, Schepp, Karen G., Jung, Young-Mi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Springer Publishing Company 01.01.2013
• Subjects: Administration, Management, and Leadership; Adolescent; Adult; Attitude; Family - psychology; Female; Humans; Male; Nursing; Nursing Education; Parent-Child Relations; Pilot Projects; Professional Issues and Trends; Psychometrics - instrumentation; Reproducibility of Results; Republic of Korea; Students - psychology; Translations; Young Adult; Republic of Korea; South Korea; instrument translation; translation equivalence; translation validity; expressed emotion
• ISSN: 1061-3749; 1945-7049
• DOI: 10.1891/1061-3749.21.3.415

Background and purpose: This study was conducted to develop and pilot test a Korean version of the Family Attitude Scale (FAS). Methods: We developed the Korean FAS using the translation/back-translation method. Two English monolinguals assessed its translation validity by comparing the original with a back-translated English version. Translation equivalence of the FAS and the refined Korean FAS was evaluated in a convenience sample of 56 bilingual Korean college students. Results: The internal consistency of the Korean FAS and the FAS was 0.96 and 0.76, respectively. Mean scores on the two versions did not differ (t = −0.14, p = 0.89). The test-retest correlation coefficient was 0.37 (p < .001). Conclusions: Although the Korean FAS needs further refinement and psychometric testing, it was translated to reflect the original version and was a reliable instrument for the Korean population.