TY - JOUR
T1 - School children’s attributions of intentions for parental behaviors
T2 - Development of a measure
AU - Zhang, Lufei
AU - Wan, Wendy W.N.
AU - Luk, Chung Leung
AU - Tam, Vicky C.W.
AU - Wu, Peiguan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2016.
PY - 2016/6
Y1 - 2016/6
N2 - The present study developed a new scale to measure children’s attributions of intentions for parental behaviors. The scale has 180 items (18 intentions that children may use to explain why parents perform each of 10 parental behaviors), and was administered to 1973 Chinese students (age range = 9-16 years; M = 12.5, SD = 1.70; 1024 boys and 949 girls). Using half of the sample, 10 exploratory factor analyses were conducted (variance accounted for ranged from 64.24% to 73.32%, M = 69.9%), each on the 18 items associated with one of the 10 parental behaviors. Four factors with eigenvalues over one emerged. The items associated with two of the 10 stimulus behaviors were selected to form a short version. Using the other half of the sample, confirmatory factor analyses on the short version were conducted and provided further support for the four-factor structure. Concurrent validity was assessed by correlations with parental psychological and behavioral control, and gender, age, and grade of the respondents. Test-retest reliability was assessed among 159 of the respondents over a one-month separation.
AB - The present study developed a new scale to measure children’s attributions of intentions for parental behaviors. The scale has 180 items (18 intentions that children may use to explain why parents perform each of 10 parental behaviors), and was administered to 1973 Chinese students (age range = 9-16 years; M = 12.5, SD = 1.70; 1024 boys and 949 girls). Using half of the sample, 10 exploratory factor analyses were conducted (variance accounted for ranged from 64.24% to 73.32%, M = 69.9%), each on the 18 items associated with one of the 10 parental behaviors. Four factors with eigenvalues over one emerged. The items associated with two of the 10 stimulus behaviors were selected to form a short version. Using the other half of the sample, confirmatory factor analyses on the short version were conducted and provided further support for the four-factor structure. Concurrent validity was assessed by correlations with parental psychological and behavioral control, and gender, age, and grade of the respondents. Test-retest reliability was assessed among 159 of the respondents over a one-month separation.
KW - Child cognition
KW - Intention attributions
KW - Parental control
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U2 - 10.1177/0033294116648361
DO - 10.1177/0033294116648361
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 27184411
AN - SCOPUS:84977090817
SN - 0033-2941
VL - 118
SP - 1011
EP - 1038
JO - Psychological Reports
JF - Psychological Reports
IS - 3
ER -