Assessment of Perceived Parental Competencies in Argentine Adolescents: Two brief scales for its measurement
Currently, it is known that the parenting perceived by adolescents impacts their development and well-being. However, there are few scales that allow the measurement of parenting from the perspective of adolescent children. The objective of this study is to psychometrically validate two brief scales...
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| Format: | article |
| Publication Date: | 2025 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche |
| Repository: | REDIUMH. Depósito Digital de la UMH |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:dspace.umh.es:11000/35700 |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/11000/35700 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | positive parenting parental competencies adolescents parentalidad positiva competencias parentales adolescentes CDU::1 - Filosofía y psicología::159.9 - Psicología |
| Summary: | Currently, it is known that the parenting perceived by adolescents impacts their development and well-being. However, there are few scales that allow the measurement of parenting from the perspective of adolescent children. The objective of this study is to psychometrically validate two brief scales (mother and father) assessing parental skills perceptions by Argentine adolescents. 271 adolescents aged between 12 and 19 years (M = 14.97; DT = 1.66) participated in the exploratory study (55% women, 43.50% men, 1.50% not specified). 288 adolescents with the same age range (M = 15.05; DT = 1.64) experienced the confirmatory analysis (51.40% women, 45.80% men, 2.80% not specified). The study evaluated the content validity and the discriminative capacity of the items, further analyzing the structure of the scale, its internal consistency, and the concurrent validity. The EFA yielded three factors accounting for 59.26% of the variance in the mother’s version and two factors explaining 59.17% of the variance in the father’s one. The CFA brief version showed satisfactory fit indices. Results revealed an Alpha of .88 (mother version) and of .93 (father version). The correlations for concurrent validity were significant and in the direction of what was theoretically expected. The validated scales allow for estimating parental competencies perceptions in a valid, reliable, and practical way. The scales represent a methodological contribution and have theoretical implications by promoting research on this psychological construct |
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