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Revision and validation of the Family Apperception Test : some psychometric properties

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Roskam, Isabelle [UCL] Stiévenart, Marie [UCL] Deschuyteneer, Laurence [UCL] Heenen-Wolff, Susann [UCL]

The Family Apperception Test (FAT) is a projective assessment procedure based on the family system theory. FAT allows the subjects’ affects and feelings about their family to be assessed. The original version and its French translation removed some of the conceptual and psychometric limitations of previous projective tests and family assessment procedures, but several questions remained. The present study proposes several modifications to the conceptual background, administration, coding procedure and standardization of the FAT, which considera-bly improve its psychometric properties. Data were collected on 168 typical and clinical children in the French-speaking part of Belgium. The results provide significant evidence for inter- and intra-assessor reliability; the factorial analysis and the internal consistency of the revised version were good; the FAT enabled us to discriminate between typical children and those in the clinical sample. The discussion focuses on the interest and limits of the quantitative coding procedure, based on several categories conceptualized as risk versus protective factors. The FAT is charac-terized by a complementary approach —both quantitative and qualitative — to the children and their families.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2010
Language Anglais
Journal information "The Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families" - Vol. 18, no. 3, p. 297-309 (2010)
Peer reviewed yes
e-issn 1552-3950
issn 1066-4807
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SSH/IPSY - Psychological Sciences Research Institute
Keywords Projective assessment ; Family system theory ; Validation
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Bibliographic reference Roskam, Isabelle ; Stiévenart, Marie ; Deschuyteneer, Laurence ; Heenen-Wolff, Susann. Revision and validation of the Family Apperception Test : some psychometric properties. In: The Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families, Vol. 18, no. 3, p. 297-309 (2010)
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