Burgos-Benavides Luis, Cano-Lozano M Carmen, Ramírez Andrés, Rodríguez-Díaz Francisco Javier
Department of Psychology, University of Oviedo, 33003 Oviedo, Spain.
Department of Psychology, University of Jaén, 23071 Jaen, Spain.
Healthcare (Basel). 2023 Dec 18;11(24):3192. doi: 10.3390/healthcare11243192.
This systematic review and reliability generalization meta-analysis synthesized psychometric literature on instrumentation assessing child-to-parent violence published through September 2023 across four databases. In the screening, we identified studies reporting Cronbach's alpha internal consistency estimates for the child-to-parent violence scales. The eligible reliability coefficients ranged from 0.610 to 0.930, mostly exceeding the minimum threshold of 0.700. Random-effects models calculated pooled Cronbach's alphas separately for global, father-specific, and mother-specific subscales. The results demonstrated cumulative values of 0.83 (global: standard error = 0.0129), 0.800 (fathers: standard error = 0.0203), and 0.81 (mothers: standard error = 0.0179), denoting largely adequate reliability. However, significant between-study heterogeneity was observed. While the mean alpha levels seem acceptable for most tools, substantial variability coupled with the possibility of some studies violating reliability assumptions indicates that a conservative interpretation is warranted. Ongoing scale refinement and additional psychometric evaluations will strengthen the rigor methodology in this developing research domain. However, these results should be interpreted with caution, as there is a high level of heterogeneity, and it is possible that some studies have not verified the assumptions underlying Cronbach's alpha.
本系统评价和可靠性概括性元分析综合了截至2023年9月通过四个数据库发表的关于评估儿童对父母暴力行为的测量工具的心理测量学文献。在筛选过程中,我们确定了报告儿童对父母暴力行为量表的克朗巴哈系数内部一致性估计值的研究。符合条件的可靠性系数范围为0.610至0.930,大多超过了0.700的最低阈值。随机效应模型分别计算了总体、父亲特定和母亲特定子量表的合并克朗巴哈系数。结果显示累积值分别为0.83(总体:标准误 = 0.0129)、0.800(父亲:标准误 = 0.0203)和0.81(母亲:标准误 = 0.0179),表明可靠性在很大程度上是足够的。然而,观察到研究间存在显著异质性。虽然大多数工具的平均系数水平似乎可以接受,但大量的变异性以及一些研究可能违反可靠性假设的可能性表明需要进行保守的解释。持续的量表完善和额外的心理测量学评估将加强这一发展中研究领域的严谨方法。然而,这些结果应谨慎解释,因为异质性程度很高,而且有可能一些研究尚未验证克朗巴哈系数所依据的假设。