The Revised Parent-Adolescent Conflict Issues Checklist: Development, Reliability, and Validity

Abstract

The present study developed the revised version of the Parent-Adolescent Conflict Issues Checklist (PACIC) by completing the judgment stage of systemic content validity. In the first study, to examine the necessity and relevance of each item, 40 experts were selected through a purposeful method. After the judgment stage, 92 items were reduced to 47 items and 13 factors. In the second study, to assess the confirmatory factor analysis, adolescent girls and boys aged 12–18 years completed the checklist ( N = 1350, mean age 15.4 years, girls 50.1%); also, the Youth Self-Report Scale (YSR), Adolescents' Perceived Family Collective Efficacy Scale (EFCP/A), and the Conflict Behavior Questionnaire (CBQ) were applied to assess concurrent validity, and to establish convergent validity, respectively. The obtained results supported the reconstructed model, and the items went well with the specified factors. The study achieved concurrent and convergent validity. The Cronbach’s alpha coefficients between 0.78 and 0.86 showed that this instrument has excellent internal consistency; moreover, PACIC-R has measurement invariance across gender; thus, PACIC-R can be applied to assess the issues of parent-adolescent conflict and the challenges of families as well.

Phenomenological Explanation of Parent-Adolescent Conflict Among Girls Aged 16 to 17 Years

“…This study aimed to provide a phenomenological explanation of parent-adolescent conflict among girls aged 14 to 17 years. The findings align indirectly with the prior research (Cao & Tam, 2023;Forresi et al, 2023;Goering & Mrug, 2023;Haverfield & Theiss, 2023;Javidi et al, 2015;Keshavarz et al, 2020;Khodaei et al, 2021;LoBraico et al, 2020;Marshall et al, 2023;Mastrotheodoros et al, 2020;Mokhtarnai et al, 2021;Mokhtarnia et al, 2016;Sadatian et al, 2020;Valinezhad et al, 2021;Yousefi et al, 2021). The results of this study revealed that the most significant factors contributing to parent-adolescent conflict included 7 main themes and 23 sub-themes.…”

“…They worry about how to ensure their child adopts and commits to this value. Over recent years, the significant attention given to clothing and hijab has led to numerous societal changes, observable E-ISSN: 2981-2526 even in adolescent boys' clothing (Mokhtarnai et al, 2021;Mokhtarnia et al, 2016).…”

“…The inclusion criteria were: 1) willingness to participate in the study, 2) being 16 to 17 years old, 3) no history of chronic physical and mental illness based on initial assessments, 4) experiencing conflict with both parents based on participants' reports, and 5) scoring above 60 on the Parent-Adolescent Conflict Questionnaire by Mokhtarnia, Zadeh Mohammadi, and Habibi (2016), indicating high conflict with both parents. Purposeful sampling was used based on the research method.…”