Department of Psychology, Marquette University, PO Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881, USA.
J Pediatr Psychol. 2011 Jun;36(5):539-51. doi: 10.1093/jpepsy/jsq106. Epub 2010 Nov 22.
To examine reliability and validity data for the Family Interaction Macro-coding System (FIMS) with adolescents with spina bifida (SB), adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), and healthy adolescents and their families.
Sixty-eight families of children with SB, 58 families of adolescents with T1DM, and 68 families in a healthy comparison group completed family interaction tasks and self-report questionnaires. Trained coders rated family interactions using the FIMS.
Acceptable interrater and scale reliabilities were obtained for FIMS items and subscales. Observed FIMS parental acceptance, parental behavioral control, parental psychological control, family cohesion, and family conflict scores demonstrated convergent validity with conceptually similar self-report measures.
Preliminary evidence supports the use of the FIMS with families of youths with SB and T1DM and healthy youths. Future research on overall family functioning may be enhanced by use of the FIMS.
研究家庭互动宏观编码系统(FIMS)在患有脊柱裂(SB)的青少年、患有 1 型糖尿病(T1DM)的青少年以及健康青少年及其家庭中的可靠性和有效性数据。
68 个 SB 患儿家庭、58 个 T1DM 青少年家庭和 68 个健康对照组家庭完成了家庭互动任务和自我报告问卷。经过培训的编码员使用 FIMS 对家庭互动进行了评分。
FIMS 项目和分量表获得了可接受的评分者间信度和量表信度。观察到的 FIMS 父母接受度、父母行为控制度、父母心理控制度、家庭凝聚力和家庭冲突评分与概念上相似的自我报告测量具有聚合效度。
初步证据支持使用 FIMS 对 SB 和 T1DM 青少年以及健康青少年的家庭进行评估。使用 FIMS 可能会增强对整体家庭功能的研究。