Validity of the Parenting Inventory: Young Children

Authors

Robert A. Fox, Marquette UniversityFollow
Kathleen S Bentley, Marquette UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Language

eng

Format of Original

7 p.

Publication Date

4-1992

Publisher

Wiley

Source Publication

Psychology in the Schools

Source ISSN

1520-6807

Abstract

The Parenting Inventory: Young Children (PI) is a rating scale that measures the developmental expectations and behaviors of parents of children who are between the ages of 1 and 4 years, 11 months. Using a representative urban sample of 1,056 mothers, the PI was found to discriminate successfully between parents with children of different ages and to have substantial item-construct correlations (content validity). The PI was not strongly related to the Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory, a measure of parenting attitudes (discriminant validity). Reasons for this latter finding are discussed. Potential uses of the PI for practitioners working with parents in the schools are described.

Comments

Psychology in the Schools, Vol. 29, No. 2 (1992): 101-107. Permalink. © John Wiley and Sons 1992.

Recommended Citation

Fox, Robert A. and Bentley, Kathleen S, "Validity of the Parenting Inventory: Young Children" (1992). College of Education Faculty Research and Publications. 188.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/edu_fac/188