Assessing adolescents' prosocial behavior: the Family Helping Inventory.
This study examined the structure and psychometric properties of a self-report measure of adolescents' helping behavior within the family--the Family Helping Inventory (FHI)--and of its two scales, the Sibling Helping Scale (SHS) and the Parent Helping Scale (PHS). The FHI was administered to 202 adolescents along with several existing measures of prosocial tendencies and with a measure of Machiavellianism. Factor analyses yielded four internally consistent subscales for the SHS and five for the PHS, all of which were conceptually related to inventories reflecting family support among adults. Both convergent and discriminant validity were demonstrated as well.
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Department of Clinical Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.
Hannah
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Corley
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006379:Helping Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008257:Machiavellianism; D008297:Male; D010553:Personality Development; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012919:Social Behavior; D012944:Social Support