title: School Children's Attributions of Intentions for Parental Behaviors: Development of a Measure.
abstract: The present study developed a new scale to measure children's attributions of intentions for parental behaviors. The scale has 180 items (18 intentions that children may use to explain why parents perform each of 10 parental behaviors), and was administered to 1973 Chinese students (age range = 9-16 years; M = 12.5, SD = 1.70; 1024 boys and 949 girls). Using half of the sample, 10 exploratory factor analyses were conducted (variance accounted for ranged from 64.24% to 73.32%, M = 69.9%), each on the 18 items associated with one of the 10 parental behaviors. Four factors with eigenvalues over one emerged. The items associated with two of the 10 stimulus behaviors were selected to form a short version. Using the other half of the sample, confirmatory factor analyses on the short version were conducted and provided further support for the four-factor structure. Concurrent validity was assessed by correlations with parental psychological and behavioral control, and gender, age, and grade of the respondents. Test-retest reliability was assessed among 159 of the respondents over a one-month separation.
authors.affiliation: School of Marxism, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.
authors.forename: Lufei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of International Business, Tunghai University, Republic of China wendywan@live.com.
authors.forename: Wendy W N
authors.initials: WW
authors.lastname: Wan
authors.affiliation: Department of Marketing, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Chung-Leung
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Luk
authors.affiliation: Department of Education Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Vicky C W
authors.initials: VC
authors.lastname: Tam
authors.affiliation: International School of Business & Finance, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.
authors.forename: Peiguan
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D008297:Male; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012938:Social Perception
keywords: child cognition; intention attributions; parental control