Development and initial validation of the Parent Behavior Inventory.

Abstract

The Parent Behavior Inventory (FBI) is a brief measure of parenting behavior for use with the parents of preschool-age and young school-age children. It may be used as a parent self-report measure, a report measure for others familiar with the parent, or as an observational rating scale. Its parallel forms offer clinicians and researchers a single measure capable of multimethod, multi-informant, and multisetting assessment. The FBI's two independent scales, Supportive/Engaged and Hostile/Coercive, have sufficient content validity, show adequate internal consistency and test-retest reliability, and relate to measures of parental affect, parental stress, and child behavior problems. Evidence for its usefulness as a rating scale is presented. The results provide support for the reliability and construct validity of the FBI and demonstrate its versatility as a measure of parenting behavior.

Prevention of Child Behavior Problems Through Universal Implementation of a Group Behavioral Family Intervention

“…While these correlations are by no means perfect, this gives some support to our reliance on parent's scores on well-designed parenting measures as reflective of objective differences in their own parenting behavior (Lovejoy, 1991;Lovejoy et al, 1999).…”

Validación del inventario de conductas parentales: Un análisis factorial confirmatorio

“…Considerando el potencial beneficio de los métodos de autorreporte, en el presente artículo reportaremos dos estudios, dentro del marco del examen preliminar del Inventario de Conducta Parental (Lovejoy et al, 1999). Del primer estudio, nuestros objetivos descansan en la replicabilidad de la estructura interna del inventario.…”

“…Inventario de Conducta Parental (ICP).-El diseño de su construcción siguió un cuidadoso procedimiento reportado en Lovejoy et al (1999), que apuntaba hacia la evaluación de amplio rango de la conducta parental en dos dominios: la conducta hostil/coerciva y de apoyo/comprometida. El inventario contiene 20 afirmaciones de conductas específicas, en que la madre debe responder sobre el grado de certeza con que realiza cada una de ellas en su relación con su hijo.…”

“…El primero sirvió para revelar los potenciales factores que podrían emerger sin imponer alguna estructura. Luego, el AFC permitirá una prueba directa de la estructura previamente definida por Lovejoy et al (1999); se aplicó para ello el programa Statistica (StatSoft, 1995). Para evaluar el ajuste del modelo, utilizamos varios criterios, como lo sugieren Hair, Anderson, Tatham & Black (1999).…”

Parents of Children with Asperger Syndrome: Relationships between Early Attachment Experiences and Parenting Behaviors

“…Results focus on two aspects of parenting, supportive/engaged and hostile/ coercive behaviors, each identified as problematic to parenting and attributable to a variety of specific parenting behaviors. Lovejoy et al (1999) defines supportive/engaged behaviors as "behavior which demonstrates the parent's acceptance of the child through affection, shared activities, and emotional and instrumental support" (p.535). Hostile/coercive behaviors "express[es] negative affect or indifference toward the child and may involve the use of coercion, threat, or physical punishment to influence the child's behavior" (p. 535).…”