A New Look at the Psychometrics of the Parenting Scale Through the Lens of Item Response Theory

Lorber, Michael F.; Xu, Shu; Slep, Amy M. Smith; Bulling, Lisanne J.; O’Leary, Susan G.

doi:10.1080/15374416.2014.900717

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“…We scored the answers on the basis of a two-factor model (overreactivity, laxness), according to recent studies (Lorber, Xu, Smith Slep, Bulling, & O'Leary, 2014;Salari, Terreros, & Sarjadi, 2012) that suggested that this model shows a better fit compared to the three-factor model, which also included a Verbosity subscale.…”

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Specific Learning Disorders

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Despite their ascertained neurobiological origin, specific learning disorders (SLD) often have been found to be associated with some emotional disturbances in children, and there is growing interest in the environmental and contextual variables that may modulate children's developmental trajectories. The present study was aimed at evaluating the psychological profile of parents and children and the relationships between their measures. Parents of children with SLD (17 couples, 34 participants) and parents of children with typical development (17 couples, 34 participants) were administered questionnaires assessing parenting styles, reading history, parenting stress, psychopathological indexes, and evaluations of children's anxiety and depression. Children (N = 34, 10.7 ± 1.2 years) were assessed with self-evaluation questionnaires on anxiety, depression, and self-esteem and with a scale assessing their perception of parents' qualities. Results showed that parents of children with SLD have higher parental distress, poorer reading history, and different parenting styles compared to parents of children with TD; there were no differences in psychopathological indexes. The SLD group also rated their children as more anxious and depressed. Children with SLD had lower scholastic and interpersonal self-esteem, but they report ratings of parents' qualities similar to those of TD children. Relationships between parents' and children's measures were further explored. Implications for research and practice are discussed.

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Specific Learning Disorders

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“…PS scores distinguish clinical from nonclinical samples and have been validated against behavioral observations of parenting and with item response theory methods (Arney, Rogers, Baghurst, Sawyer, & Prior, 2008; Arnold et al, 1993; Harvey, Danforth, Ulaszek, & Eberhardt, 2001; Lorber, Xu, Slep, Bulling, & O'Leary, 2014). Parents rate their use of discipline strategies on the PS using 7-point scales that are anchored by one effective (e.g., sets limits on what my child is allowed to do) and one ineffective discipline strategy (e.g., lets my child do whatever he/she wants.).…”

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Parental Flooding During Conflict: A Psychometric Evaluation of a New Scale

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J Abnorm Child Psychol

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Parents who are overwhelmed by the intensity and aversive nature of child negative affect -those who are experiencing flooding -may be less likely to react effectively and instead may focus on escaping the aversive situation, disciplining either overly permissively or punitively to escape quickly from child negative affect. However, there are no validated self-report measures of the degree to which parents experience flooding, impeding the exploration of these relations. Thus, we created and evaluated the Parent Flooding scale (PFS), assessing the extent to which parents believe their children's negative affect during parent-child conflicts is unexpected, overwhelming and distressing. We studied its factorial validity, reliability, and concurrent validity in a community sample of 453 couples with 3-to 7-year-old children (51.9% girls) recruited via random digit dialing. Confirmatory factor analyses indicated a one-factor solution with excellent internal consistency. Test-retest stability over an average of 5.6 months was high. Concurrent validity was suggested by the associations of flooding with parents' aggression toward their children, overreactive and lax discipline, parenting satisfaction, and parents' anger, as well as with child externalizing behavior and negative affect. Incrementally concurrent validity analyses indicated that flooding was a unique predictor of mothers' and fathers' overreactive discipline and fathers' parent-child aggression and lax discipline, over and above the contributions of parents' anger and children's negative affect. The present results support the psychometric validity of the PFS.

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“…Parents completed a 6-item version 1 of the Laxness subscale from the Parenting Scale, a self-report measure of discipline style validated against home observations [Arnold et al, 1993], and via item response theory methods [Lorber et al, 2014b]. Each item presents a discipline scenario (e.g., "When my child misbehaves") and asks the parent to identify the point that best describes their parenting along a 7-point continuum between 2 anchors.…”

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Mechanisms Linking Interparental Aggression to Child Dental Caries

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Research has garnered support for a systemic view of factors affecting child dental caries that accounts for the influence of social factors such as the family environment. Our previous work has demonstrated the association between mother-to-father emotional aggression and child caries. The present study builds on these results by evaluating pathways that might explain this relation. Families (n = 135) completed a multimethod assessment of mother-to-father emotional aggression, child caries, and several hypothesized mediators (i.e., child cariogenic snack and drink intake, child internalizing behaviors, child salivary cortisol and α-amylase reactivity, parental laxness, child oral hygiene maintenance, and parental socialization of child oral hygiene maintenance). Mediation analyses partially supported the role of the child's diet as a mechanism linking mother-to-father emotional aggression and child caries. However, children's neglect of oral hygiene, parental laxness, and child emotional and biological disturbances failed to stand as conduits for this association. Future investigations should expand upon these results to better establish the causal links that could only be suggested by the present cross-sectional findings.

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A New Look at the Psychometrics of the Parenting Scale Through the Lens of Item Response Theory

Cited by 35 publications

References 34 publications

Specific Learning Disorders

Specific Learning Disorders

Parental Flooding During Conflict: A Psychometric Evaluation of a New Scale

Mechanisms Linking Interparental Aggression to Child Dental Caries

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