Journal article
INITIAL VALIDATION OF THE ASSESSMENT OF PARENTING TOOL: A TASK- AND DOMAIN-LEVEL MEASURE OF PARENTING SELF-EFFICACY FOR PARENTS OF INFANTS FROM BIRTH TO 24 MONTHS OF AGE
Infant mental health journal, Vol.37(3), pp.222-234
05/01/2016
DOI: 10.1002/imhj.21567
PMID: 27090618
Abstract
Parenting self-efficacy (PSE) includes parents' self-perceptions regarding their capabilities in performing the numerous and changing tasks associated with parenting a specific child (i.e., domain-specific PSE) as well as their self-perceptions in the parenting role overall (i.e., domain-general PSE). Prior literature has demonstrated PSE's relations with numerous constructs significant to mental health and the parent-infant relationship. Prior measures of PSE have been limited by focusing on only domain-specific or domain-general PSE, ignoring the importance of infant development to PSE, and other psychometric limitations. This article presents sound psychometric data for a new measure of PSE, the Assessment of Parenting Tool (APT). The APT includes task-level items on the Domain-Specific subscale (APT-DS) for each age-referenced version of the measure as well as a domain-general subscale that taps overall PSE within the first 24 months' postpartum. Initial construct validity of the measure is established, particularly for parents of infants aged 3 months and older. A stable, three-factor structure for the domain-general subscale includes "coping with being a parent," "attuned parenting," and "self-perceived model parenting." Future directions for the APT, including a revised checklist format for the domain-specific subscale, are included.
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- Title: Subtitle
- INITIAL VALIDATION OF THE ASSESSMENT OF PARENTING TOOL: A TASK- AND DOMAIN-LEVEL MEASURE OF PARENTING SELF-EFFICACY FOR PARENTS OF INFANTS FROM BIRTH TO 24 MONTHS OF AGE
- Creators
- Tracy E. Moran - Tulane UniversityJoshua R. Polanin - Vanderbilt UniversityAmber L. Evenson - Erikson InstituteBeth R. Troutman - University of IowaChristina L. Franklin - Alexander Center
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Infant mental health journal, Vol.37(3), pp.222-234
- Publisher
- Wiley
- DOI
- 10.1002/imhj.21567
- PMID
- 27090618
- ISSN
- 0163-9641
- eISSN
- 1097-0355
- Number of pages
- 13
- Grant note
- Erikson Institute R305B100016 / Institute of Education Sciences Postdoctoral Training Fellowship Institute of Education Sciences; US Department of Education
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/01/2016
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry
- Record Identifier
- 9984296357602771
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