The Structure of Parents' Intrafamilial Attitudes and Sentiments Measured by Objective Tests and a Vector Model

Delhees, Karl H.; Cattell, Raymond B.; Sweney, Arthur B.

doi:10.1080/00224545.1970.9919955

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“…In subsequent work, the six factors identified bore little resemblance to the hypothesized ones (Thornburg, Ispa, Gray, & Ponder, 1983). Similarly, Cattell and his colleagues (Barton, Dielman, & Cattell, 1973) found a more complex factor structure on the Family Attitude Measure (FAM) than had been found in an earlier study (Delhees et al, 1970). With a second PCRA, Dielman, Barton, and Cattell (1973) replicated only about half of the factors they had identified previously.…”

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“…H. Block, 1965Hurley, 1965R. R. Sears, 1965Pumroy, 1966Rothbart & Maccoby, 1966Anders & Dayan, 1967Lansky, 1967Emmerich, 1969Ernhart & Loevinger, 1969Cohler et al, 1970Delhees et al, 1970T. Gordon, 1970Gutelius, 1970Baumrind, 1971Dielman et al, 1971Hurley & Hohn, 1971 Content/subscales This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.…”

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“…Four basic ingredients of a questionnaire include the format of the question, the number and phrasing of the items, and the type of response elicited. Although a variety of question formats have been tried, including word associations (Laws, 1927), paired comparisons (Pumroy, 1966), fill-in the blanks (Ojemann, 1935b), a memory test (Delhees, Cattell, & Sweney, 1970), and short vignettes (Ackerley, 1935), these efforts represent exceptions. The great majority of surveys use single sentence phrases depicting something about a parent or child to which the parent then makes a judgment.…”

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Parental attitudes toward child rearing: Instruments, issues, and implications.

Holden¹,

Edwards²

1989

Psychological Bulletin

348

226

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Describes historical use of surveys to assess parents' global child-rearing attitudes and reviews the structure and content of the 83 parent attitude questionnaires published from 1899 through 1986 designed to quantify variations in parental attitudes and, presumably, parental behavior. Inspection of the surveys' psychometric properties reveals marginally acceptable levels of reliability and questionable validity. One suspected source of problems with the instruments, the use of vague and ambiguous items, was confirmed in a study of mothers' reactions to one survey. In addition to instrument errors, conceptual problems associated with assumptions about the structure of parental attitudes and how attitudes relate to parental behavior are discussed. Alternative methods for assessing parental social cognitions and individual differences in parents are advocated.

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Parental attitudes toward child rearing: Instruments, issues, and implications.

Holden¹,

Edwards²

1989

Psychological Bulletin

348

226

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“…Other scales of parental attitudes have been developed (Baumrind and Black, 1967;Delhees, Cattell and Sweney, 1970), but the PARI has continued to be used and cited extensively in the literature. One of the aims of this ongoing research project was to examine parental characteristics and project began, we re-examined some of the PARI's properties and relationships with other measures of parental characteristics administered to two Dunedin samples.…”

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The parental attitude research instrument: An approach to use of attitude questionnaires

Stanton

Silva

1992

Early Dev. Parent.

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Parental attitude questionnaires such as the Parental Attitude Research Instrument (PARI) are still in use despite their inherent difficulties. In light of the need to test theoretical models by measuring a range of parental characteristics, the properties of the PARI were re-examined and, on the basis of a factor analysis of the 23 subtests of the PARI, a shortened version was constructed. A measure of maternal Authoritarian Control, which was found to be associated with measures of maternal mental ability, personality, level of education, reading age, number of adverse family conditions and child-rearing practices, has proved useful for other projects related to this ongoing study. It is recommended that such instruments be used only in conjunction with other measures which examine the family environment, for example in an index of childrearing practices.

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