Some Psychometric Characteristics of the Family Adaptation Scale (FAS) On A Sample Of Young People In Serbia

Abstract

The Family Adaptation Scale has already been translated into Serbian and used on a sample of families in our country. Despite its frequent usage in Serbia, its factorial structure and predictive value has never been explored. According to theoretical background, FAS was composed of items from two aspects of adaptation (inner and external) and global appraisal, but they are loading one latent variable. In this research, we investigated factorial structure and reliability of the scale, as well as its predictive validity in relation to some aspectsof risky behaviour. We performed these analyses in two samples: high-school and university students. Using the Principal component method, we extracted only one factor in both samples. Reliability analysis showed very high internal consistency. However, predictive validity is very small and suspicious.