Department of Psychology and Counselling, Faculty of Arts and Social Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Kampar 31900, Malaysia.
Department of Communication, College of Liberal Arts, Wenzhou-Kean University, Wenzhou 325060, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Dec 24;19(1):156. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19010156.
The Family Adaptability and Cohesion Scale III (FACES-III) has been widely used to measure an individual's family functioning in terms of cohesion and adaptability. In Malaysia, the FACES-III has been translated into the Malay language for the community, but its psychometric properties in this context remain unknown. Thus, the purpose of this research is to examine the psychometric properties of the Malay version of the FACES-III in 852 adolescents attending secondary schools in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Data were randomly split into two halves: the exploration sample and the validation sample. Exploratory factor analysis was conducted on the exploration sample and a two-factor model was discovered after removing nine items that showed low factor loading. Then, confirmatory factor analysis was conducted on the validation sample to compare the one-factor models, two-factor models, and three-factor models. Results showed that the 11-item two-factor model (FACES-III-M-SF) was superior to the other competing models. Both the exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses replicated the two-factor structure of the original version of FACES-III. The reliability of the overall scale was consistently good, but the subscale results were mixed. This suggests that researchers should use the overall score, but not the subscale scores, in analyses.
家庭适应与凝聚度量表 III（FACES-III）被广泛用于衡量个体家庭在凝聚和适应方面的功能。在马来西亚，该量表已被译为马来语，适用于社区人群，但在该背景下，其心理测量学特性仍不清楚。因此，本研究旨在检验马来语版 FACES-III 在马来西亚吉隆坡 852 名中学生中的心理测量学特性。数据随机分为两半：探索性样本和验证性样本。探索性因子分析在探索性样本中进行，在删除了九项因子负荷较低的项目后，发现了一个两因素模型。然后，在验证性样本中进行验证性因子分析，比较了单因素模型、双因素模型和三因素模型。结果表明，11 项双因素模型（FACES-III-M-SF）优于其他竞争模型。探索性和验证性因子分析均复制了 FACES-III 原始版本的两因素结构。整体量表的可靠性始终良好，但分量表结果参差不齐。这表明，在分析中研究人员应使用总分数，而不是分量表分数。
