The original 20-item ASF was used for this purpose
N = 285 Hispanics in the Miami-Dade community
Age 18 to 85
38.04 Mean
12.69 Std. Dev.
Gender 142 Female
142 Male
Marital Status 58 Single
178 Married
15 Living Together
25 Divorced
4 Widowed
5 Missing
Education 84 < High School
101 High School or Equivalent
67 Some College
29 College Degree
4 Missing
Religion 225 Catholic
9 Protestant
17 Other Christian
1 Jewish
5 Other
28 Missing
Occupation 162 Blue Collar/Domestic/Service
23 Students
23 Technical/Sales
21 Supervision/Administration
46 Professional
7 Unemployed
2 Missing
71 $20,000-$39,000
34 $40,000-$60,000
17 > $60,000
17 Missing
Country of Birth 135 Cuba
46 Mexico
45 USA
59 17 Countries in Central and South America
and Caribbean
Number Family Members 1 – 9
3.38 Mean
1.32 Std. Dev.
Number Children in Family 0 – 7
1.22 Mean
1.20 Std. Dev.
Type Family 97 Adults Only
143 Nuclear Families
14 Parents, Kids and other Relatives
2 Parents, Kids and other People
12 Parents, Kids, Relatives and other People
17 Missing
Results:
Factor structure confirmed with reliability analysis
.65 for Growth
.66 for Spirituality
.82 for Stability
.82 for Control
Total Scale .86
Conclusion:
Factor structure holds firm with Hispanic subjects. Future testing of 22 item instrument may strengthen Growth and Spirituality.
Instrument was also tested for equivalency with the English instrument with 38 of the Hispanic subjects.
The scores for the four scales were standardized on both instruments and compared with paired t-test. None of the t values were greater than .0001 and the paired correlations were significant a
p-level of < .001.
Therefore, the two instruments can be used concurrently with people speaking different languages in the same sample. Since the two instruments have varying number of items in the scales, the scores need to be standardized.