Assessment of Filial, Parental, Marital, and Collective Family Efficacy Beliefs

Abstract

Summary: This study examines the psychometric properties of four scales designed to assess efficacy beliefs that family members hold about their role as spouse, parent, and child, as well as about the functioning of family as a holistic system. The sample includes about 600 parents and about 1000 adolescents. Psychometric properties of the scales are examined by means of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses as well as internal coherence coefficients. Validity was examined by means of correlations with indicators of open communication, parental monitoring, aggressive management of conflict, and family satisfaction. Confirmatory factor analysis corroborates the internal reliability of the scales and their distinctiveness. Although correlated, efficacy beliefs that family members hold regarding their capacity to meet the different roles within the family and involved in the functioning of family as a whole system are not reducible to a single dimension. The family efficacy scales provide theoretically rooted tools for studying family processes and functioning as they occur under naturalistic conditions and as a result of therapeutic interventions.

The Contribution of Self–Regulatory Efficacy Beliefs in Managing Affect and Family Relationships to Positive Thinking and Hedonic Balance

“…Spouses' perceived marital efficacy was measured by 9 items (Caprara, Regalia, & Scabini, 2001;Caprara, Regalia, Scabini, Barbaranelli, & Bandura, 2004) assessing beliefs in their capabilities to communicate openly and confide in each other, share feelings, aspirations and worries, provide each other with emotional support, cope jointly with marital problems, work through disagreements over child rearing, and share common activities and social relations.…”

Collective moral disengagement: Initial validation of a scale for adolescents

“…By using established methods for measuring collective social cognitive processes, such as "collective self-efficacy" (Barchia & Bussey, 2011;Caprara, Regalia, Scabini, Barbaranelli, & Bandura, 2004), we developed a new self-report scale for adolescents aimed at assessing CMD within school classrooms. As for collective and individual efficacy, CMD operates through similar processes to IMD, differing only in the unit of agency.…”

The influence of self-efficacy beliefs for student parents attending university

“…In addition to demographic variables, six measures were utilized for this study: Academic Self-Efficacy Scale (Zajacova et al, 2005); Parental Self-Efficacy Scale (Caprara, Regalia, Scabini, Barbaranelli, & Bandura, 2004); School, family, and general life satisfaction subscales of the Extended Satisfaction with Life Scale (Alfonso, Allison, Rader, & Gorman, 1996); and the Work-Family Balance Scale (Carlson et al, 2009) Self-efficacy. Self-efficacy beliefs reflect what individuals believe they can accomplish, and these beliefs regulate thought processes, motivation, and affective and physiological states (Bandura, 1997).…”

“…Self-efficacy beliefs reflect what individuals believe they can accomplish, and these beliefs regulate thought processes, motivation, and affective and physiological states (Bandura, 1997). Self-efficacy beliefs are also domain-specific in that they vary across domains of functioning rather than being a type of a global trait (Caprara, et al, 2004). For this study, two specific efficacy domains were measured: academic self-efficacy and parental self-efficacy.…”

“…This construct was measured using one scale from a set of family efficacy scales developed by Caprara, Regalia, Scabini, Barbaranelli and Bandura (2004). The 12 items are rated according to the respondent's perceived efficacy to manage various aspects of the parent-child relationships using a 7-point scale from 1 (not well at all) to 7 (very well).…”