A general theory for perceptual indicators of family life quality

The paper presents Foa and Foa's Resource Theory (1974) that was used to de velop a self-report, multidimensional measure of family well-being, an indi cator of family life quality. Facet theory methods of sentence mapping prov ided an explicit way to explain how theoretical constructs were translated to operational measures, and a rationale for the use of multidimensional sc aling analysis to verify the circular structure of resource classes propose d by the theory. Results of the analyses confirmed the theoretical proposit ions for a sample of 560 adults and indicated a better fit of the data for women's, compared to the men's model.