TY - JOUR
T1 - The Family Resilience Inventory
T2 - A Culturally Grounded Measure of Current and Family-of-Origin Protective Processes in Native American Families
AU - Burnette, Catherine E.
AU - Boel-Studt, Shamra
AU - Renner, Lynette M.
AU - Figley, Charles R.
AU - Theall, Katherine P.
AU - Miller Scarnato, Jennifer
AU - Billiot, Shanondora
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Family Process Institute
PY - 2020/6/1
Y1 - 2020/6/1
N2 - The purpose of this article is to introduce the Family Resilience Inventory (FRI) and present findings on initial efforts to validate this measure. The FRI is designed to assess family resilience in one's current family and in one's family of origin, enabling the assessment of family protective factors across these generations. The development of the FRI was the result of many years of ethnographic research with Southeastern Native American tribes; yet, we believe that this scale is applicable to families of various backgrounds. Items for the FRI were derived directly from thematic analysis of qualitative data with 436 participants, resulting in two 20-item scales. Due to missing data, eight cases were removed from the 127 participants across two tribes, resulting in an analytic sample size of 119. Conceptually, the FRI is comprised of two factors or scales measuring distinct dimensions of family resilience (i.e., resilience in one's current family and resilience in one's family of origin). The results of the confirmatory factor analysis supported the hypothesized two-factor structure (X2(644) = 814.14, p =.03, X2/df = 1.10, RMSEA =.03, CFI =.97, TLI =.96). Both the subscales and the total FRI scale (α =.92) demonstrated excellent reliability. The results also provided preliminary evidence of convergent and discriminant validity. This measure fills a gap in the absence of community-based, culturally grounded, and empirical measures of family resilience. The examination of family resilience, which may occur across generations, is an exciting new contribution of the FRI.
AB - The purpose of this article is to introduce the Family Resilience Inventory (FRI) and present findings on initial efforts to validate this measure. The FRI is designed to assess family resilience in one's current family and in one's family of origin, enabling the assessment of family protective factors across these generations. The development of the FRI was the result of many years of ethnographic research with Southeastern Native American tribes; yet, we believe that this scale is applicable to families of various backgrounds. Items for the FRI were derived directly from thematic analysis of qualitative data with 436 participants, resulting in two 20-item scales. Due to missing data, eight cases were removed from the 127 participants across two tribes, resulting in an analytic sample size of 119. Conceptually, the FRI is comprised of two factors or scales measuring distinct dimensions of family resilience (i.e., resilience in one's current family and resilience in one's family of origin). The results of the confirmatory factor analysis supported the hypothesized two-factor structure (X2(644) = 814.14, p =.03, X2/df = 1.10, RMSEA =.03, CFI =.97, TLI =.96). Both the subscales and the total FRI scale (α =.92) demonstrated excellent reliability. The results also provided preliminary evidence of convergent and discriminant validity. This measure fills a gap in the absence of community-based, culturally grounded, and empirical measures of family resilience. The examination of family resilience, which may occur across generations, is an exciting new contribution of the FRI.
KW - Family Resilience
KW - Indigenous peoples
KW - Native American or American Indian
KW - Resilience
KW - Risk and Protective Factors
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U2 - 10.1111/famp.12423
DO - 10.1111/famp.12423
M3 - Article
C2 - 30811593
AN - SCOPUS:85062372938
SN - 0014-7370
VL - 59
SP - 695
EP - 708
JO - Family Process
JF - Family Process
IS - 2
ER -