title: Sources of Family Annoyance (SOFA): development, reliability, and validity.
abstract: The Sources of Family Annoyance (SOFA) is a brief questionnaire intended to measure chronic stressors experienced by fathers and mothers in the home. Two scales, Household Negatives and Child Negatives, were derived from factor analysis. Experiment 1 demonstrated that the instrument discriminated a group of parents of psychiatric clinic-referred children from nonreferred parents. Experiment 2 demonstrated that the instrument discriminated mothers who were receiving public assistance from mothers in a community sample. Results suggest that the SOFA is a reliable and valid brief parent stress assessment instrument that may be useful in family-based interventions to reduce stress and improve the course of pediatric illness.
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles 90024-6967.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Frankel
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D011581:Psychological Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology