title: Validation of the preschool and primary school form of a questionnaire assessing parents' childrearing behavior.
abstract: This study presents a validation of a scale that assesses parents' childrearing behavior toward young children. The scale was validated on 565 parents of 2- to 7-year-old children. The current results replicated the factor solution of the original scale designed for parents of school-aged children. The scale demonstrated good psychometric properties: moderate to high internal consistency, the expected relations with criterion variables (parental self-efficacy beliefs, child's behavior and personality), and discriminative properties according to the parents' gender and educational level, the child's age and gender, and the difference between referred and nonreferred children.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. jean-christophe.meunier@uclouvain.be
authors.forename: Jean-Christophe
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Meunier
authors.forename: Isabelle
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Roskam
mesh_terms: D002605:Character; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D002668:Child Rearing / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003469:Culture; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D020377:Self Efficacy; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires