Abstract

FUENTES AGUILAR, Andrea Patricia  and  MERINO ESCOBAR, José Manuel. VALIDATION OF AN INSTRUMENT OF FAMILY FUNCTIONALITY. Ajayu [online]. 2016, vol.14, n.2, pp.247-283. ISSN 2077-2161.

This article aims to explain the process of validation of an instrument of family functionality from the comparison of two scales that incursioned the measurement of the construct, being these FF- SIL created in Cuba by Lauro Isabel Bernal and "How is your family?", instrument of the Pan- American Healthy Organization (1999) and validated in Chile by Ramón Florenzano. The approach of the study was quantitative and the design is cross correlational. It established that instrument How is your family is suitable to measure the construct that you want to measure, it is based on a proper theoretical construction and it did not make desing errors that distort the results.

Keywords : family; functionalism; instrument; measuring.

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