title: Measuring parental and family efficacy beliefs of adolescents' parents: Cross-cultural comparisons in Italy and Portugal.
abstract: The goal of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Perceived Parental Self-Efficacy (PPSE) and Perceived Family Collective Efficacy (PFCE) revised scales in the Portuguese and Italian contexts. To this aim two studies were conducted: the first reported the exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses with Portuguese samples, whereas the second addressed the cross-cultural invariance of PPSE and PFCE (Portugal and Italy). Results of the first study showed the appropriate fit of the unifactorial model of both scales to Portuguese data. The invariance analyses performed in the second study attested to the PPSE and PFCE's configural, metric and scalar invariance in both countries. The correlations of PPSE and PFCE with communication, management of conflict and children's school achievement further attested to their construct and practical validity. Thus, PPSE and PFCE proved to be suitable to further use in research and psychological assessment fields.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
authors.forename: Marisa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Costa
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
authors.forename: Luísa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Faria
authors.affiliation: "Sapienza", University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Guido
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Alessandri
authors.affiliation: "Sapienza", University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Gian Vittorio
authors.initials: GV
authors.lastname: Caprara
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000328:Adult; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D011174:Portugal; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D020377:Self Efficacy
keywords: Family collective efficacy; Parental self-efficacy; Psychometric properties and cross-cultural invariance