Ujiie Yuta, Takahashi Kohske
Graduate School of Psychology, Chukyo University, 101-2 Yagoto Honmachi, Showa-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi, 466-8666, Japan.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan.
Heliyon. 2020 Dec 30;7(1):e05871. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05871. eCollection 2021 Jan.
The Family Allocentrism Scale (FAS) was developed to assess individual differences in allocentrism-idiocentrism with reference to the family. To date, no prior study has adequately investigated the psychometric properties of the Japanese version of the FAS in Japanese samples, although Japanese culture is considered as a symbol of an interdependent (or collectivist) culture. This study attempted to demonstrate the validity of the factor structure and the convergent validity of the Japanese version of the FAS in a sample of Japanese adults. The results of the confirmatory factor analysis showed a lack of fit of the one-factor model for all FAS items but the fit improved to the acceptable level if some items with low factor loadings were removed. The internal consistency measure (Cronbach's alpha) of the FAS indicated an acceptable level of reliability. The results also showed that the FAS scores were closely related to the scores of horizontal collectivism, vertical collectivism, and interdependence. Our findings indicate the validity and reliability of the Japanese version of the FAS, thereby providing a validated tool for the investigation of cross-cultural differences in family allocentrism-idiocentrism.
家庭中心主义量表（FAS）旨在评估个体在以家庭为参照的中心主义-自我中心主义方面的差异。尽管日本文化被视为相互依存（或集体主义）文化的象征，但迄今为止，尚无先前的研究充分调查日语版FAS在日本样本中的心理测量特性。本研究试图在日本成年人样本中验证日语版FAS的因子结构有效性和收敛效度。验证性因子分析结果显示，所有FAS项目的单因素模型拟合不佳，但如果去除一些因子载荷较低的项目，拟合度会提高到可接受水平。FAS的内部一致性测量（Cronbach's alpha）表明可靠性处于可接受水平。结果还表明，FAS得分与水平集体主义、垂直集体主义和相互依存得分密切相关。我们的研究结果表明了日语版FAS的有效性和可靠性，从而为研究家庭中心主义-自我中心主义的跨文化差异提供了一个经过验证的工具。
