Perceived Parenting Styles and Parental Inconsistency Scale: Construct Validity in young Adults.

DE LA IGLESIA, GUADALUPE; FREIBERG HOFFMANN, AGUSTÍN; STOVER, JULIANA BEATRIZ; FERNÁNDEZ LIPORACE, MERCEDES

International Journal of Humanities and Social Science

Center for Promoting Ideas

Lugar: Louisville; Año: 2014 vol. 4 p. 61 - 69

2220-8488

Abstract The study examines evidences of construct validity of the Perceived Parental Styles and Parental Inconsistency scale ?EPIPP?, on a sample of 369 young adults. Individuals were asked about their father and their mother by means of 24 items. These conform six subscales that constitute a first-order-model?Affection, Dialogue, Indifference, Verbal Coercion, Physical Coercion and Prohibition? that additionally group into two major scales ?a second-order model?:Responsiveness and Demandingness.A confirmatory factor analysis was carried out on the first-order and second-order factor structures, using maximum likelihood and a bootstrap procedure with 500 random samples. Resulting indexes showed an excellent fit in both models for the Father and Mother versions. Furthermore, adequate results were obtained in a cross-validation and a factorial invariance analysis. This way, solid evidences of construct validity were obtained for the EPIPP, suggesting it for the assessment of perceived parenting in young adults.