The family affluence scale as a measure of national wealth: Validation of an adolescent self-report measure
The family affluence scale as a measure of national wealth: Validation of an adolescent self-report measure
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DOI：
10.1007/s11205-005-1607-6
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发表时间：
2006-09-01
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Zambon, Alessio
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作者：
Boyce, William;Torsheim, Torbjorn;Zambon, Alessio
对青少年ses -健康关联缺乏一致性的一种解释是，以父母为基础的收入和职业措施不充分。家庭富裕量表（FAS）是世卫组织学龄儿童健康行为研究中制定的一种替代措施，是衡量家庭财富的四项指标。本文的目的是检验35个国家的FAS作为衡量国民绝对财富的标准和结构效度。2001年的国内生产总值（GDP）是衡量国民财富的一般标准，经购买力平价修正后，被用作黄金标准。对于综合FAS指数，国家等级顺序的相关强度与GDP相似（0.87），Kappa协议系数为0.57，表明标准效度良好。FAS指数与国家健康指标的相关性系统性地高于与GDP的相关性。这些特征表明，FAS可以自信地用于关注社会经济地位与青少年健康之间关系的HBSC数据的汇总分析。
One explanation for a lack of consistency in SES-health associations in youth is that parent-based income and occupation measures are inadequate. The Family Affluence Scale (FAS), a four-item measure of family wealth, has been developed in the WHO Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Study as an alternative measure. The aim of this paper is to examine the criterion and construct validity of the FAS as a measure of national absolute wealth in 35 countries. A general measure of national wealth, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the year 2001, corrected for Purchasing Power Parity, was used as a gold standard. For the composite FAS index, there was a similar strength in country rank order correlation (0.87) as with GDP, and a Kappa agreement coefficient of 0.57, indicating good criterion validity. FAS index associations with national health indicators were systematically higher than the values obtained with GDP. These features suggest that FAS can be used with confidence in aggregate analyses of HBSC data that focus on relationships between SES and adolescent health.