title: A measure of parents' assessments of their children's abilities.
abstract: The present study assessed the psychometric properties of a multidimensional measure of parents' assessments of their children's abilities, including problem-solving skills, social skills, dexterity, creativity, and learning motivation. A nationwide sample of Finnish parents (N=432), representing two educational groups, both mothers (64%) and fathers (36%) whose mean age was 37.8 yr. (SD=5.3), were asked to assess their children's abilities during preschool and at the end of the first and the third school year. A set of analyses of this longitudinal data indicated that the scales had adequate internal and temporal consistency, the factor structure showed invariability across time, and the scales related meaningfully to the parents' perceptions of their children's competencies in different school subjects.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Joensuu, Finland. hannu.raty@joensuu.fi
authors.forename: Hannu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Räty
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003405:Creativity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D010290:Parents; D011340:Problem Solving; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires