The Development of a Measure of the Parenting Alliance.

Autor/inn/en	Abidin, Richard R.; Brunner, John F.
Titel	The Development of a Measure of the Parenting Alliance.
Quelle	(1991), (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Child Caregivers; Concurrent Validity; Fathers; Mothers; Predictive Validity; Preschool Education; Psychometrics; Sex Differences; Stress Variables; Test Bias; Test Construction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Caregiver; Caregivers; Carer; Child; Children; Kinderbetreuung; Mother; Mutter; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Psychometry; Psychometrie; Sex difference; Geschlechtsunterschied; Testkritik; Testaufbau
Abstract	The Parenting Alliance Inventory (PAI) was administered to 186 mothers and 75 fathers with a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds who had at least one child between 2 and 6 years of age. Subjects were recruited from child care facilities, pediatric practices, and public recreational facilities in central Virginia. Extrafamilial child caregivers provided ratings of each child's adjustment. In addition to the PAI, parents completed the Parenting Stress Index, Parents Attitude toward Child Rearing, Revised Marital Adjustment Scale, Preschool Behavior Rating Scale (PBRS), and the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale. The child care providers completed the PBRS and the Behavioral Academic/Self Esteem Scale. Findings suggest that the scale is unidimensional and internally consistent; is not biased on the social desirability of the items; and exhibits concurrent and predictive validity. An examination of the pattern of correlations among variables based on gender revealed some notable differences. One consistent finding across gender was that parenting stress had a significant negative correlation with the perceived strength of the parenting alliance. It is concluded that results of this initial evaluation of the PAI are positive and suggest that the PAI measures the parenting alliance. Replication of the results with a larger sample is necessary before the validity and utility of the measure can be established. (RH)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC