TY - JOUR
T1 - Fear of Intimacy with Helping Professionals Scale
T2 - Reliability and Validity of English and Mandarin Versions
AU - Ingersoll, Travis Sky
AU - Poulin, John
AU - Deng, Rong
AU - Shan, Xu
AU - Witt, Heather
AU - Swain, Melanie
N1 - (2012). Fear of Intimacy with Helping Professionals Scale: Reliability and Validity of English and Mandarin Versions. Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work: Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 317-332. doi: 10.1080/15433714.2010.516689
PY - 2012/7
Y1 - 2012/7
N2 - In this study the authors examine the reliability and validity of the Fear of Intimacy with Helping Professionals Scale (FIS-HP) with Chinese (N = 150) and American (N = 145) elderly persons. Factor analysis using principal component analysis with a varimax rotation was used to examine the FIS-HP factor structure for both samples. A three factor solution emerged for both samples. The FIS-HP has acceptable internal consistency reliability with both the United States and China samples. Correlation analysis supported five of the six hypotheses related to convergent validity. English and Mandarin versions of the scale are presented.
AB - In this study the authors examine the reliability and validity of the Fear of Intimacy with Helping Professionals Scale (FIS-HP) with Chinese (N = 150) and American (N = 145) elderly persons. Factor analysis using principal component analysis with a varimax rotation was used to examine the FIS-HP factor structure for both samples. A three factor solution emerged for both samples. The FIS-HP has acceptable internal consistency reliability with both the United States and China samples. Correlation analysis supported five of the six hypotheses related to convergent validity. English and Mandarin versions of the scale are presented.
KW - China
KW - exploratory factor analysis
KW - Fear of intimacy
KW - helping professionals
KW - reliability
KW - validity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84864682187&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15433714.2010.516689
U2 - 10.1080/15433714.2010.516689
DO - 10.1080/15433714.2010.516689
M3 - Article
C2 - 22830935
AN - SCOPUS:84864682187
SN - 1543-3714
VL - 9
SP - 317
EP - 332
JO - Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work
JF - Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work
IS - 4
ER -