For a study, I’m about to use a french version (translation Eng>French and back translation) of the Friendship Quality Scale (FQS; Bukowski, Hoza & Boivin, 1994) for students with Asperger syndrome in mainstream secondary schools.
By using this tool, my goal is to see how those students perceive their relationship with the person they choose as “best friend”.
Because I’m interested in the personal view of the student, I don’t need to confirm if this relationship is reciprocal in all ways by the person identified as “best friend”. Moreover, it would be difficult to ask this “best friend” to complete the questionnaire if (s)he’s not participating at the study. I have to clarify that FQS is one of the tools I am using in this study. An important part will be semi-directive interviews with those students.
Nevertheless, I would like to collect your opinions about the relevance of using the FQS without involving a dyad student / best friend.
Thank you for your help.
Hye Margot,
my opinion is that it is surely better than developing an entirely new scale.
As you argue, the most important thing is the view of students and not the reciprocity.
Kind regards
w
Thank you for your answer, Wannes! I think you are right about using an existant tool rather than developing a new one.
For the moment, I'm struggling a little bit with back translation!
Kind regards and all my best for your very interesting research!
Margot,
It seems that the FQS would be a great tool for you in this instance, but I'd refer to the resulting measure as perceived friendship quality when you only measure the actor rather than the actor and their best friend. Reciprocal investment is part of friendship quality as a whole; without measuring that, it's likely that you'd be missing part of the puzzle. However, your issue is resolved by using the appropriate one-sided wording (e.g. perceived friendship quality).
John
Bonjour,
J'arrive probablement trop tard dans cette conversation, mais la version française de cet instrument existe déjà et a déjà été validée par Boivin...
Geneviève
Merci Geneviève! En avez-vous une copie ou un lien vers cette version?
Is there a version in Spanish to evualuate the Friendship Quality in adolescents? or I have to validate it?
Hi Amalia, I don't know if there is a Spanish version of the FQS but you can ask directly to the authors. You can find the main authors on Research Gate. Here for example is the RG page of W.M. Bukowski: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/William_Bukowski
Here this is B. Hoza's page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Betsy_Hoza
And here, M. Boivin"s page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michel_Boivin4
I'm sure one of you could give you an informed answer! I hope you will have your answer!
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