Psychometric properties of Young Parenting Inventory
Subject Areas : Journal of Educational PsychologyLayli Amirsardari 1 , Ahmad Esmali 2 , Ali Khademi 3
1 - Ph.D. student of phycology, Islamic Azad University, Tehran Centeral Branch and Young researchers and elite club, Tehran, Iran
2 - Assistance professor of phycology, Islamic Azad University, Maraghe, Iran
3 - Department of phycology, Islamic Azad University, Maraghe, Iran
Keywords: parenting styles, exploratory factor analyses, Normalization,
Abstract :
The aim of the present study was to investigate the efficacy of psychometric indices of Young’s parenting style inventory (1999) based on confirmatory factor analysis via Varimax rotation and achieve an exact tool for the assessment of parenting styles in Iranian population samples. The Statistical population was Urmia Azad University students. The sample size was 400 students that were selected by Cluster sampling involving 276 women and 124 men. The result of the confirmatory factor analysis via Varimax rotation based on 17 factors was as follows: Mother and father questionnaires were reduced from 72 to 28 and 72 to 30 questions respectively. The results are in harmony with English version of Young’s parenting questionnaire and just a few subscales need to be modified which involve: (for mothers) lack of trust/mistreatment including questions 10 and 11, in obedience factor, question 32, in altruism factor, all questions, in merit factor, all questions, in self-control factor/inadequate self-discipline, all questions. The problematic factors among all questions should be omitted or replaced. And (for fathers) in abandonment/instability factor, question 7, in altruism factor, all questions, in negativism/pessimism factor, all questions and also emotional inhibition factor in question 6 should be omitted or replaced. The results of this study showed that Young’s parenting style questionnaire is a suitable tool for assessing parenting styles in Iranian society, moreover, it is one of the effective variables in the initial creation of the maladaptive schema, and therefore, this tool is appropriate to achieve this goal.
