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Perceived Adequacy of Resources: Development of a Scale

School of Home Economics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803

Richard A. Dodder

Department of Sociology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078

Sharon Y. Nickols

Department of Housing, Interior Design, and Consumer Studies, and Family Study Center, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078

A scale to measure perceived adequacy of resources was constructed and ana lyzed with responses from 520 adults. A 28-item instrument assessed how re spondents felt about the adequacy of resources categorized as physical environ ment, health/physical energy, time, financial, interpersonal, knowledge/skills, and community resources. Internal consistency of the scale was high (Cronbach's alpha = 0.89), and items loaded as expected in the seven resource categories. A shortened version was also evaluated. The Perceived Adequacy of Resources scale appeared to offer a solution to the absence of a parsimonious and reliable scale for measuring resources.

Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, Vol. 14, No. 2, 218-225 (1985)
DOI: 10.1177/1077727X8501400205


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