A general theory for perceptual indicators of family life quality

Kathryn D. Rettig; Ronit D. Leichtentritt

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A general theory for perceptual indicators of family life quality

Kathryn D. Rettig^*, Ronit D. Leichtentritt

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The paper presents Foa and Foa's Resource Theory (1974) that was used to develop a self-report, multidimensional measure of family well-being, an indicator of family life quality. Facet theory methods of sentence mapping provided an explicit way to explain how theoretical constructs were translated to operational measures, and a rationale for the use of multidimensional scaling analysis to verify the circular structure of resource classes proposed by the theory. Results of the analyses confirmed the theoretical propositions for a sample of 560 adults and indicated a better fit of the data for women's, compared to the men's model.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	307-342
Number of pages	36
Journal	Social Indicators Research
Volume	47
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006837329353
State	Published - 1999
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Facet theory
Family life quality
Family well-being
Multidimensional scaling
Resource theory

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