Validation and standardization of Four Factor Parenting Questionnaire in mothers of elementairy school students

Subject Areas : Psychology

mojtaba rahimi ¹ , hossein molavi ² , Mojtaba Ansarishahidi ³ , akram dehghani ⁴

1 - psychology, Department of Psychology, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran.
2 - Department of Psychology, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran.
3 - Department of Psychology, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran.
4 - Department of Psychology, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran.

Received: 2020-11-05 Accepted : 2021-05-29 Published : 2022-11-22

Keywords: reliability, standardization, Validation, Parenting styles,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study was to determine validation and  standardization of Four Factor Parenting Questionnaire in mothers of elementary school students. Therefore 200 mothers who referred to the Psychological Services and counseling center of Isfahan ministry of Education were randomly through convenience sampling  selected and were asked to answer the Baumrind Parenting Style Inventory (Baumrind) and the items of Four Factor Parenting Questionnaire that is designed by Shyny (2017) based on  the eastern parenting cultural context. The results of confirmatory factor analysis showed that the four factor model fitted the data on the factors were named: Authoritarian, Authoritative, Permissive and Uninvolved (P-VALUE=0.00000). Also the concurrent validity coefficients of the questionnaire with the Baumrind Parenting Style Inventory were satisfactory.  The cronbach alpha coefficients of the factors were also higher than .80.  The results show that the Four Factor Parenting Questionnaire has appropriate characteristics and totally can be used in the Iranian sample and can use it for treatment aims and research.

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