title: [The Family Questionnaire (FB-K) - A Short Version of the General Family Questionnaire and its Reliability and Validity].
abstract: A standardized assessment of a family system plays a crucial role in family therapy research and diagnostic, as well as in a family therapy itself. A 14-item short version of the General Family Questionnaire (FB-K) was designed to get a tool for assessing family functionality that is low time-consuming.
  
  
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  The short version was developed by factor analysis from the long version FA-A. The quality criteria of the family questionnaire were verified in a control sample of 208 high-risk families four months after the birth of their child. The new family questionnaire demonstrates a very good reliability and a satisfactory 8-months-stability. The concurrent validity with the FACES scale "cohesion" is assured. Regarding the construct validity a positive correlation to the feeling of coherence was found. The family questionnaire shows a negative correlation to the maternal postnatal depressive symptoms, the degree of maternal stress burden, the dysfunctionality of the mother-child-relationship and impaired bonding. The values taken from a norm sample with infants are higher by trend and in the sample with children under 18 do not deviate from the values of the risk sample. FB-K covers two aspects of family functioning, the bond between family members and their willingness to communicate. The internal consistency of FB-K is excellent, the criterion and the construct validity are good.
authors.affiliation: Institut fur Psychosomatische Kooperationsforschung und Familientherapie, Universitatsklinikum Heidelberg, Bergheimer Str. 54, 69115 Heidelberg.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sidor
authors.affiliation: Institut fur Psychosomatische Kooperationsforschung und Familientherapie, Universitatsklinikum Heidelberg.
authors.forename: Manfred
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cierpka
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D019052:Depression, Postpartum / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D054541:Family Conflict / Q000523:psychology*; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009769:Object Attachment; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012307:Risk Factors; D060685:Sense of Coherence; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013598:Systems Theory
keywords: Familiendiagnostik; Familienkoharenz; Reliabilitat; Risiko-Stichprobe; Validitat; family cohesion; family diagnostics; reliability; risk sample; validity