A Check on the Structure of Parental Reports of Child-Rearing Practices

The purpose of the investigation was to check the dimensionality of parental reports of child-rearing practices, utilizing recent refinements in factor-analytic methodology and a broader sample of items than heretofore employed. Fathers as well as mothers were studied. The subject sample consisted o...

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Published in:Child development 1971-09, Vol.42 (3), p.893-903
Main Authors: Dielman, T. E., Cattell, R. B., Lepper, Carolyn, Rhoades, Patrick
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Child discipline
Child rearing
Factor analysis
Fathers
Maternal behavior
Mothers
Parental attitudes
Parents
Permissiveness
Questionnaires
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Summary:The purpose of the investigation was to check the dimensionality of parental reports of child-rearing practices, utilizing recent refinements in factor-analytic methodology and a broader sample of items than heretofore employed. Fathers as well as mothers were studied. The subject sample consisted of 156 mothers and 133 fathers of 6-8-year-old children. The questionnaires developed for this study consisted of adaptations of the Sears (1957, 1965) variables. In the analysis of the mothers' data, 16 first-order factors were extracted and rotated to oblique simple structure, with 18 factors resulting from the fathers' data. Second-order analyses resulted in 8 factors in the case of the mothers' data and 7 factors in the case of the fathers'. The results are compared with the results of earlier analyses in the child-rearing-practices domain.
ISSN:0009-3920
1467-8624
DOI:10.2307/1127456