Department of Education, Asociación de Investigación en Métodos Mixtos, ALIMM, Universidad del Norte, Atlántico, Colombia.
Department of Educational Psychology, Asociación de Investigación en Métodos Mixtos, ALIMM, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2020 Apr 3;15(4):e0230831. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0230831. eCollection 2020.
The parent-child relationship is a cornerstone of early childhood development and one-way early childhood programs can have a positive influence on early development is to adopt programmatic features to enhance this relationship. Research supports these conclusions in both U.S. and cross-cultural contexts, even though assumptions about parenting and the parent-child relationship may differ across cultures. However, for true understanding of cultural differences, it is important to have comparable measures across cultures. The purpose of the study is to assess measurement invariance of the two constructs of the Child-parent Relationship Scale using data gathered in programs serving low-income preschool children in the U.S.(n = 4,450) and Turkey (n = 592) from 2014 to 2015. Using Single-group Confirmatory Factor Analysis, the original factor structures of the Turkish and the English versions were tested. Besides, Multigroup Confirmatory Factor Analysis provided evidence for configural, metric, scalar invariance, strict factorial invariance or error variance invariance and construct level invariance across the two versions. Only configural invariance was established, which showed an agreement for the existence of an underlying theoretical construct for each subscale (Conflict and Closeness) of the Turkish and the English versions. However, item CPRS 4 was a non-significant item for Conflict in the Turkish version that affected the possibility to conduct further analyses. Findings encourage researchers to propose and assess cultural and linguistic adaptations for the Child-parent Relationship Scale before cross-cultural comparisons related to family relationships.
亲子关系是儿童早期发展的基石，单向的儿童早期计划可以对早期发展产生积极影响，其方式是采用计划性特征来增强这种关系。在美国和跨文化背景下的研究都支持这些结论，尽管不同文化对养育方式和亲子关系的假设可能不同。然而，为了真正理解文化差异，在跨文化之间使用可比的衡量标准是很重要的。本研究的目的是使用 2014 年至 2015 年期间在美国（n=4450）和土耳其（n=592）为服务低收入学龄前儿童的计划收集的数据，评估亲子关系量表的两个结构的测量不变性。使用单组验证性因素分析，测试了土耳其语和英语版本的原始因子结构。此外，多组验证性因素分析为土耳其语和英语版本的组态、度量、标度不变性、严格因子不变性或误差方差不变性以及构念水平不变性提供了证据。仅建立了组态不变性，这表明土耳其语和英语版本的每个子量表（冲突和亲密）的潜在理论构念的存在存在一致性。然而，对于土耳其语版本的冲突，CPRS4 是一个非显著项目，这影响了进一步分析的可能性。研究结果鼓励研究人员在与家庭关系相关的跨文化比较之前，提出并评估亲子关系量表的文化和语言适应性。
