How do you measure hardiness in AD caregivers?

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Among 435 Iranian AD family caregivers, the new FCHS showed five factors explaining 58.72% variance with acceptable CFA fit and reliability.

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Development and Psychometric Evaluation of Family Caregivers' Hardiness Scale: A Sequential-Exploratory Mixed-Method Study

Hosseini L, Sharif Nia H, Ashghali Farahani M · Frontiers in psychology · 2022

doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.807049 Read the full paper ↗43 citationscc by

Study at a glance

Design: Cross-sectional — Sequential-exploratory mixed-method scale development (qual items + EFA/CFA psychometrics)
N: N=435 · Family caregivers in psychometric step; mean age 50.26
Population: Iranian family caregivers of patients with Alzheimer’s disease
Outcome: Validity/reliability of Family Caregivers’ Hardiness Scale (FCHS)

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What they did

Clarified hardiness via content analysis, then tested face/content validity and EFA/CFA psychometrics on an online caregiver sample.

What they found

Five factors (religious coping, self-management, empathic communication, family affective commitment, purposeful interaction); good CFA fit and acceptable reliability/stability.

The limits

What it doesn't show

Scale validation in one cultural sample does not prove intervention effects of raising hardiness scores.

Key terms

Hardiness: Commitment, control, and challenge attitudes under stress (Kobasa).
FCHS: Family Caregivers’ Hardiness Scale developed here.
EFA/CFA: Exploratory then confirmatory factor analysis.
Sequential-exploratory mixed-method: Qualitative item generation followed by quantitative psychometrics.
Religious coping: Largest named FCHS factor (5 items).
Internal consistency: Reliability of scale scores across items.

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Psychometric n?

435 caregivers.

Factors / variance?

Five factors; 58.72% variance.

Design?

Cross-sectional sequential-exploratory mixed-method.

CFA result?

Good model fit.