Okawa Sho, Rapee Ronald M, Takahashi Takahito, Reardon Tessa, Arai Honami, Shimizu Eiji, Creswell Cathy
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Anna Watts Building, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG, UK.
Research Center for Child Mental Development, Chiba University, 1-8-1, Inohana, Chuo Ku, Chiba-Shi, Chiba, 260-8670, Japan.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2024 Sep 9. doi: 10.1007/s10578-024-01753-8.
The Parent Overprotection Measure (POM) is a promising scale to measure parent overprotection toward a child from the parent's perspective. However, no Japanese translation of the scale has been developed, and whether the POM can be applied to a Japanese population is unknown. This study translated the POM into Japanese and examined its psychometric properties. Parents of 380 children aged 4 to 7 years (including 190 mothers and 190 fathers) completed online questionnaires. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) indicated that the Japanese translation of the POM has a bi-factor structure, including one general factor (general overprotection) and two specific factors (care/attention and control/prevention). The measurement invariance of reports from mothers' and fathers' perspectives was confirmed by multiple group CFA. The McDonald's Omega was acceptable for all factors, but the general overprotection factor explained most scale variance. Pearson's correlation coefficients were more than .20 between the control/prevention factor and child anxiety symptoms in both mother and father reports. The correlation between the control/prevention factor and parent anxiety according to fathers' reports also exceeded .20. These results provided the factor structure and supported the reliability of the POM among a Japanese population; however, further investigation of the validity of the scale is needed.
父母过度保护量表（POM）是一种很有前景的量表，用于从父母的角度衡量父母对孩子的过度保护程度。然而，该量表尚未有日文译本，其是否适用于日本人群也尚不清楚。本研究将POM译为日文并检验其心理测量特性。380名4至7岁儿童的父母（包括190名母亲和190名父亲）完成了在线问卷。探索性和验证性因素分析（CFA）表明，POM的日文译本具有双因素结构，包括一个一般因素（总体过度保护）和两个特定因素（照顾/关注和控制/预防）。多组CFA证实了母亲和父亲报告的测量不变性。所有因素的麦克唐纳欧米伽系数均可接受，但总体过度保护因素解释了量表的大部分方差。在母亲和父亲的报告中，控制/预防因素与儿童焦虑症状之间的皮尔逊相关系数均超过0.20。根据父亲的报告，控制/预防因素与父母焦虑之间的相关性也超过0.20。这些结果提供了因素结构，并支持了POM在日本人群中的可靠性；然而，该量表的有效性还需要进一步研究。
