Citation

Gaudin JM, Polansky NA, Kilpatrick AC. Child Welf. 1992; 71(4): 319-328.

Affiliation

Research Center, University of Georgia School of Social Work, Athens.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, Child Welfare League of America)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1638906

Abstract

The Child Well-Being Scales [Magura and Moses 1986] were developed to evaluate programs of child welfare services. Although appealing in format, the scales have lacked adequate validation. For the field trial reported here, 17 of the scales were extracted and used to form measures of physical and psychological care of children. A comparison between families identified as neglectful and low-income control families yielded differences in the predicted direction. The composite indices showed good internal consistency. The concurrent validity of this segment of the scales was supported. The scales yielded three factors that reliably classified families externally verified as neglectful and nonneglectful control families.

Language: en