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Developmental, child, family and couple

Family Environment Scale.

FES

What it measures
Social-environmental climate of the family across 10 subscales in 3 domains: Relationship (Cohesion, Expressiveness, Conflict); Personal Growth (Independence, Achievement Orientation, Intellectual-Cultural, Active-Recreational, Moral-Religious); System Maintenance (Organization, Control)
Length and format
90 items. true-false (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Many languages (widely adapted internationally)
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
copyrighted - commercial

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Reference
Moos, R. H., & Moos, B. S. (1994). Family Environment Scale Manual (3rd ed.). Palo Alto: Consulting Psychologists Press / Mind Garden. (https://www.mindgarden.com/96-family-environment-scale)

https://www.mindgarden.com/96-family-environment-scale

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