Measurement, structural, and functional invariance of parent-child play quality coding across multiple games and parent gender

Autor(en)

Bernhard Piskernik, Nina Ruiz

Abstrakt

While parenting research continues unabated to compare similarities and differences in mothers' and fathers' behaviors based on mean values between both parents, measurement invariance as a prerequisite for these comparisons has seldom been assured. The present study thus subjected the well-known Parenting Stress Index (PSI), widely used in models of family functioning, to a rigorous measurement invariance analysis based on (N=214) Austrian couples with children younger than 3 years of age. We evaluated configural, metric, scalar, and uniqueness invariance on item and subscale levels, and tested for structural invariance of means and variances of the PSI parent and child domain by second order confirmatory factor analyses. As a result, only measurement differences on the scalar levels affected the factor scores, though negligibly. On the structural levels, no differences were found on the PSI child domain across parents, but on the PSI parent domain, mothers reported more stress.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Klinische und Gesundheitspsychologie

Journal

European Journal of Developmental Psychology

Band

17

Seiten

156-164

Anzahl der Seiten

9

ISSN

1740-5629

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2018.1480935

Publikationsdatum

06-2018

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

501018 Psychologische Diagnostik, 501005 Entwicklungspsychologie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/b82d2078-207c-47d7-9471-4bc61663fd44