Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA.
Assessment. 2019 Dec;26(8):1504-1523. doi: 10.1177/1073191117719513. Epub 2017 Jul 13.
Protective and intrusive parenting behaviors consistently relate to children's anxiety development. We present two studies describing the development of the Attitudes about Parenting Strategies for Anxiety (APSA) scale, which assesses parent distress about children's displays of anxiety and shyness as well as parent attitudes about the effectiveness of protective and intrusive responses across several domains. Study 1 included 594 parents who completed the APSA and additional measures online and established the factor structure, internal reliability, and validity of the measure. We also performed a latent profile analysis of the attitude items to understand common patterns and their correlates. Study 2 comprised 108 mothers participating in a laboratory-based study and provided additional evidence for the factor structure, reliability, and validity, as well as 1-year stability. The APSA appears to be a reliable and valid measure that could have utility for understanding the determinants of parenting behaviors relevant to child anxiety development.
保护和侵入性的养育行为与儿童的焦虑发展密切相关。我们介绍了两项研究,描述了焦虑养育策略态度量表(APSA)的发展,该量表评估了父母对孩子焦虑和害羞表现的困扰,以及父母对几种领域中保护和侵入性反应有效性的态度。研究 1 包括 594 名家长,他们在线完成了 APSA 和其他测量,并确定了该测量的因素结构、内部可靠性和有效性。我们还对态度项目进行了潜在剖面分析,以了解常见模式及其相关性。研究 2 由 108 名参与基于实验室的研究的母亲组成,提供了对因素结构、可靠性和有效性以及 1 年稳定性的进一步证据。APSA 似乎是一种可靠和有效的测量工具,可用于了解与儿童焦虑发展相关的养育行为的决定因素。