How do you measure hardiness in AD caregivers?
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
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- 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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How do you measure hardiness in AD caregivers?
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435 caregivers; mean age 50.26.
In the psychometric step, the samples were 435 family caregivers with a mean age of 50.26 (SD ± 13.24), and the data were gathered via an online form questionnaire.
Five factors explained 58.72% variance.
FCHS consists of five factors, namely, “Religious Coping” (5 items), “Self-Management” (6 items), “Empathic Communication” (3 items), “Family Affective Commitment” (3 items), and “Purposeful Interaction” (4 items) that explained 58.72% of the total variance.
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.
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