Al. Piatt et al., THE RELATIONSHIP OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENT TO PERCEIVED FAMILY FUNCTIONING AMONG AFRICAN-AMERICAN ADOLESCENTS, Adolescence, 28(111), 1993, pp. 673-684
The Family-of-Origin Scale for adolescents (FOS) is a 40-item ten subs
cale instrument designed to assess perceived psychological health in t
he respondent's family. To date, the FOS has been used exclusively wit
h white adolescents. The FOS was administered concurrently with the La
ngner Symptom Survey (LSS), a measure of adjustment, to 135 African-Am
erican adolescents. The LSS exhibited moderate, yet significant, corre
lations with the FOS: A total score, two superordinate dimensions, and
six subscales. The results lend modest support for the construct vali
dity of the FOS.