Turkish Adaptation, Validity and Reliability Study of the Beach Center Family Quality of Life Scale

Abstract

The aim of this study is to adapt the Beach Center Family Quality of Life Scale to Turkish by examining its psychometric properties. Participants were 368 mothers of children with disabilities from 7 cities of Turkey. In this study firstly, the language equivalency between English and Turkish forms were tested. After that confirmatory factor analysis, criterion validity, the Cronbach’s alpha correlation coefficients, and split-half reliabilities, corrected item-total correlations and t-tests between items’ means of upper 27%-lover 27% points of the Turkish form were examined. Results showed that the scale called Beach Center Family Quality of Life Scale as a valid and reliable instrument can be used in the fields of intellectual and developmental disabilities and special education.