TITLE:
Can Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire (PSDQ) Be Used in China?
AUTHORS:
Yixiao Fu, Xiao Hou, Qing Qin, Huaqing Meng, Peng Xie, Yi Huang, Xiaohong Ma, Wei Deng, Qinghua Luo, Yingcheng Wang, Hua Hu, Lian Du, Haitang Qiu, Tian Qiu, Tao Li
KEYWORDS:
Parenting Style; Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire; Reliability; Validity
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.4 No.6,
June
11,
2013
ABSTRACT: Objective: To evaluate the validity and reliability of the Chinese version of PSDQ (Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire, PSDQ). Method: 443 parents of children aged 6 to 16 who lived in Chongqing were selected. .52 of them were retested 6 weeks later in order to assess the retest reliability. Determination of reliability included: internal consistency: to calculate Cronbach coefficient; coefficient of retest reliability: to calculate person correlation of results in every subscale in twice measurements of 52 parents. Determination of validity: content validity, structural validity, confirmatory factor analysis. Results: For each subscale and factor, the values of kappa for inter-rater reliability were between .625 and .884 (p .05); the values of retest reliability were between .537 and .832 (p .05); The scores of the subscale of PSDQ were correlated with each factor significantly (coefficient of correlation: .732 - .951, p cient: .382 - .834, p .05). The confirmatory factor analysis of PSDQ showed the result met the criteria standard for adequacy of fit. (CMIN/df: 2.218 - 3.745; TLI: .808 - .920; RMSEA: .052 - .079; MECVI of default model was very close to that of saturated model, most of proliferation index were more than .8). Conclusion: Parenting Style and Dimensions Questionnaire (PSDQ), in line with requirements of psychometric, had good reliability and validity and was useful as a tool to evalua