The Family Affluence Scale as a Measure of National Wealth: Validation of an Adolescent Self-Report Measure

By W. Boyce, Torbjørn Torsheim, C. Currie, A. Zambon. 2006

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Researching health inequalities in adolescents: the development of the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) family affluence scale. (2008, background): “In addition, country level correlations between 1997 and 2001 for both individual FAS items and summary scores were very high indicating good stability (Boyce et al., 2006).”
An examination of the validity of the Family Affluence Scale II (FAS II) in a general adolescent population of Canada (2009, methodology): “However, our data is consistent with the 2001/2002 HBSC national Canadian data ( Boyce et al. 2006 ).”
Family Firm(s) Outcomes Model: Structuring Financial and Nonfinancial Outcomes Across the Family and Firm (2017, background): “Bedroom sharing, for instance, may better represent culture and family size, as well as age and gender of the children, rather than family wealth (Boyce et al., 2006).”
The KIDSCREEN-27 quality of life measure for children and adolescents: psychometric results from a cross-cultural survey in 13 European countries (2007, methodology): “Children (HBSC) psychosomatic complaints symptom checklist [14] was used, a brief screening instrument that asks children and adolescents about the frequency of occurrence of symptoms like headache, stomachache, irritability/ bad temper, feeling nervous etc.”