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The Family Environment Scale (FES) is a self-report measure of family social climate.
Introduction
The Family Environment Scale (FES; Moos and Moos 2009) is a self-report multidimensional measure of social climate within families. The first edition of the Family Environment Scale was published in 1981; since then, Moos and Moos have updated the manual for the measure in 1984, 1994, and most recently in 2009. The FES comprises 90 true-false items spanning 10 dimensions. Three forms of the measure are available: R, measuring real family climate; I, measuring ideal family climate; and E, measuring expected family climate. The FES can also be used to obtain retrospective reports of past family environments. The FES can be administered to a single family member or to multiple family members, the latter of which allows for the computation of incongruence scores. The FES is administered and scored using pencil and paper.
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Rivers, A.S., Sanford, K. (2019). Family Environment Scale. In: Lebow, J.L., Chambers, A.L., Breunlin, D.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49425-8_396
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