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The Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scales (FACES), a measure of family functioning, contains three scales: cohesion, adaptability, and social desirability. These were slightly modified (FACES- R) on the basis of pilot data and were administered to 42 clinic families (families seeking or receiving psychological services) and 206 nonclinic families. Support for the scales was found in high coefficient alpha reliabilities and similarity of the sample means and standard deviations to those of the standardization sample. However, there was little agreement among family members' scale scores. Therapists' ratings of cohesion and adaptability did not correlate with scale scores among clinic families. There was no difference between clinic and nonclinic samples on the cohesion or adaptability scales, although the social desirability scale did discriminate between groups. Factor analysis suggested that cohesion, adaptability, and social desirability cannot be clearly differentiated using this measure.
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This work was supported by the American Association of University Women and by Grant R01HD13820 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
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Alexander, B.B., Johnson, S.B. & Carter, R.L. A psychometric study of the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scales. J Abnorm Child Psychol 12, 199–207 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00910663
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