Psychometric Properties of Parenting Measures in Indonesia

Psychometric Properties of the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire

We examined the psychometric properties of a German translation of the Child Global Report version of the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire (APQ). A total of 1219 German school-children (644 boys and 575 girls), ages 10–14 years participated in the study. The APQ was subjected to exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Exploratory factor analysis produced five factors that were largely cons...

Psychometric Properties of Four Measures of Noise Sensitivity: a Comparison

Individual noise sensitivity is a stable personality trait covering attitudes towards a wide range of environmental sounds. It is a major antecendent of noise annoyance reactions, and is assessed by obtaining responses to one or several rating-scale items. The psychometric properties of four German-language noise-sensitivity measuresÐa translation of Weinstein's (1978) noise-sensitivity scale, ...

Psychometric properties of Spanish-language dental fears measures

Psychometric properties of Spanish-language adult dental fear measures

BACKGROUND It would be useful to have psychometrically-sound measures of dental fear for Hispanics, who comprise the largest ethnic minority in the United States. We report on the psychometric properties of Spanish-language versions of two common adult measures of dental fear (Modified Dental Anxiety Scale, MDAS; Dental Fear Survey, DFS), as well as a measure of fear of dental injections (Needl...

Measuring Adolescents’ Perceptions of Parenting Style During Childhood: Psychometric Properties of the Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire

The paper analyzes the psychometric properties of the G1 version of the Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire, a self-report instrument designed to investigate how adolescents or adults were parented during childhood. The sample included 1451 Italian adolescents in high school. Three studies tested the scale’s structure, invariance, and convergent validity. The first found slightly acce...