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Multidimenional Assessment Of Parenting Across Three Developmental Stages, Justin Parent
Multidimenional Assessment Of Parenting Across Three Developmental Stages, Justin Parent
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
BACKGROUND: The primary aim of the current study was to create a new measure of parenting practices, constituted by items from already established measures in order to advance the measurement of parenting practices in clinical and research settings. The current study utilized five stages designed to select only the best parenting items, establish a factor structure consisting of positive and negative dimensions of parenting, meaningfully consider child developmental stage, ensure strong psychometric properties, and provide initial evidence for the validity of the final measure.
METHODS: A total of 1,790 parents (44% fathers) were recruited online through Amazon's Mechanical Turk for …