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Clarifying and measuring filial concepts across five cultural groups
Author(s) -
Jones Patricia S.,
Lee Jerry W.,
Zhang Xinwei E.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
research in nursing and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.836
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1098-240X
pISSN - 0160-6891
DOI - 10.1002/nur.20444
Subject(s) - psychology , confirmatory factor analysis , scale (ratio) , clarity , exploratory factor analysis , test (biology) , cross cultural studies , social psychology , developmental psychology , gerontology , clinical psychology , psychometrics , structural equation modeling , medicine , geography , mathematics , biology , cartography , paleontology , biochemistry , statistics , chemistry
Literature on responsibility of adult children for aging parents reflects lack of conceptual clarity. We examined filial concepts across five cultural groups: African‐, Asian‐, Euro‐, Latino‐, and Native Americans. Data were randomly divided for scale development ( n = 285) and cross‐validation ( n = 284). Exploratory factor analysis on 59 items identified three filial concepts: Responsibility , Respect , and Care . Confirmatory factor analysis on a 12‐item final scale showed data fit the three‐factor model better than a single factor solution despite substantial correlations between the factors (.82, .82 for Care with Responsibility and Respect , and .74 for Responsibility with Respect ). The scale can be used in cross‐cultural research to test hypotheses that predict associations among filial values, filial caregiving, and caregiver health outcomes. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Res Nurs Health 34:310–326, 2011