Parent Justin, Forehand Rex
Department of Psychological Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405.
Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
J Child Fam Stud. 2017 Aug;26(8):2136-2151. doi: 10.1007/s10826-017-0741-5. Epub 2017 May 9.
The aim of the current study was to create a new measure of parenting practices, constituted by items from already established measures, to advance the measurement of parenting practices in clinical and research settings. Five stages were utilized to select optimal parenting items, establish a factor structure consisting of positive and negative dimensions of parenting, meaningfully consider child developmental stage, and ensure strong psychometric properties (reliability and validity) of the final measure. A total of 1,790 parents (44% fathers) were recruited online through Amazon's Mechanical Turk for three cohorts: Stages 1 ( = 611), 2 ( = 615), and 3 ( = 564). Each sample was equally divided by child developmental stage: Young childhood (3 to 7 years old), middle childhood (8 to 12 years old), and adolescence (13 to 17 years old). Through the five-stage empirical approach, the Multidimensional Assessment of Parenting Scale (MAPS) was developed, successfully achieving all aims. The MAPS factor structure included both positive and negative dimensions of warmth/hostility and behavioral control that were appropriate for parents of children across the developmental span. The MAPS demonstrated strong reliability and longitudinal analyses provided initial support for the validity of MAPS subscales.
本研究的目的是创建一种新的养育方式测量方法，该方法由已确立的测量方法中的项目构成，以推进临床和研究环境中养育方式的测量。研究采用了五个阶段来选择最佳的养育项目，建立一个由养育方式的积极和消极维度组成的因素结构，有意义地考虑儿童发育阶段，并确保最终测量方法具有强大的心理测量特性（信度和效度）。通过亚马逊的土耳其机器人平台在线招募了总共1790名家长（44%为父亲），分为三个队列：第1阶段（n = 611）、第2阶段（n = 615）和第3阶段（n = 564）。每个样本按儿童发育阶段平均分为：幼儿期（3至7岁）、童年中期（8至12岁）和青春期（13至17岁）。通过五阶段实证方法，开发了养育方式多维评估量表（MAPS），成功实现了所有目标。MAPS的因素结构包括温暖/敌意和行为控制的积极和消极维度，这些维度适用于不同发育阶段儿童的家长。MAPS表现出很强的信度，纵向分析为MAPS分量表的效度提供了初步支持。
