Castelli Luigi, Garau Tania, Carraro Luciana
Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, University of Padova, Padua, Italy.
Front Psychol. 2023 Jan 16;13:1064626. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1064626. eCollection 2022.
Relevant individual differences can be observed in relation to parenting motives. The Parental Care and Tenderness (PCAT) scale is an important tool aimed at assessing them. We here investigated the psychometric properties of an Italian version of the scale ( = 946). The scale had a very high reliability and its internal structure closely reproduced the one obtained in different cultural contexts. Two major subscales, namely nurturance and protection, could be identified. In addition, we explored the validity of the scale in relation to a novel domain. Individual differences in parenting motivations, and more specifically those related to nurturance, emerged to be associated with a spontaneous behavioral tendency to approach children. Scores in the PCAT, and more specifically scores in the protection subscale, were also associated with a more conservative political orientation. The present work contributes to the growing literature about the key role of parenting motives in affecting social behaviors.
在育儿动机方面可以观察到相关的个体差异。父母关爱与柔情（PCAT）量表是评估这些差异的重要工具。我们在此研究了该量表意大利语版本（n = 946）的心理测量特性。该量表具有非常高的信度，其内部结构与在不同文化背景下获得的结构非常相似。可以识别出两个主要子量表，即养育和保护。此外，我们探讨了该量表在一个新领域的效度。育儿动机的个体差异，更具体地说是与养育相关的差异，表现出与接近儿童的自发行为倾向有关。PCAT量表的得分，更具体地说是保护子量表的得分，也与更保守的政治取向有关。本研究有助于丰富关于育儿动机在影响社会行为方面关键作用的文献。
