TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring parental and family efficacy beliefs of adolescents' parents
T2 - cross-cultural comparisons in Italy and Portugal
AU - Costa, Marisa
AU - Faria, Luísa
AU - Alessandri, Guido
AU - Caprara, Gian Vittorio
PY - 2016/12/1
Y1 - 2016/12/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Family collective efficacy
KW - Parental self-efficacy
KW - Psychometric properties and cross-cultural invariance
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84937800717&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/ijop.12197
DO - 10.1002/ijop.12197
M3 - Article
C2 - 26212371
AN - SCOPUS:84937800717
SN - 0020-7594
VL - 51
SP - 421
EP - 429
JO - International Journal of Psychology
JF - International Journal of Psychology
IS - 6
ER -
