The HOME inventory: A new scale for families of pre- and early adolescent children with disabilities

Robert H. Bradley; Bettye M. Caldwell; Judith Brisby; Mildred Magee; Leanne Whiteside; Stephen L. Rock

doi:10.1016/0891-4222(92)90009-U

The HOME inventory: A new scale for families of pre- and early adolescent children with disabilities

Robert H. Bradley, Bettye M. Caldwell, Judith Brisby, Mildred Magee, Leanne Whiteside, Stephen L. Rock

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A preliminary form of a new version of the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) is presented. It is designed for use with families of children aged 10-15. The 80-item preliminary version of the Preadolescent HOME (PA-HOME) was field tested on 117 children with varying disabilities. The 80 items were selected from a pool of over 250 items by means of several field tests and accompanying item analyses. Both factor analyses and item analyses were used to help pare down items and produce a scale with acceptable psychometric properties. The psychometric properties of the PA-HOME are quite similar to those reported for the other three versions of the HOME Inventory. It appears to be a reasonably reliable scale with moderate correlations with other measures of the family environment, such as SES, social support, and marital stability. It has low to moderate correlations with measures of child competence in this sample of children with disabilities. The correlations are of the same general magnitude of correlations between the Infant-Toddler, Early Childhood, and Middle Childhood versions of HOME in samples of younger children with disabilities.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	313-333
Number of pages	21
Journal	Research in Developmental Disabilities
Volume	13
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0891-4222(92)90009-U
State	Published - 1992
Externally published	Yes

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