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Evaluation of the factor structure of the child-reported parenting questionnaire in the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth

Publication: Health Reports 2011:22(1) www.statcan.gc.ca/healthreports

Authors: Rübab G. Arim, Jennifer D. Shapka, V. Susan Dahinten and Brent F. Olson

Data: National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth

Significant relationships have been found between parenting behaviours and child health and development. For example, low parental nurturance and high parental rejection have been associated with anxiety, property offence and hyperactivity-inattention problems in adolescence.

Despite a considerable body of research, relatively little is known about the quality of measures based on child-reported parenting behaviours.

This analysis addresses that gap by evaluating the factor structure of three child-reported parenting behaviour scales―nurturance, rejection and monitoring―in Statistics Canada's National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY).

The only model with a good fit (based on global goodness-of-fit statistics criteria) was the Parental Monitoring scale.

The 7-item NLSCY Parental Nurturance model was a good fit to the data for children aged 10 to 11 and 12 to 13, but not for 14- to 15-year-olds.

The 7-item Parental Rejection model was not a good fit to the data; consequently, the model was not confirmed for the sample of adolescents in the study.

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For more information about this article, contact Rübab Arim (1-613-951-0194; Rubab.Arim@statcan.gc.ca), Health Analysis Division, Statistics Canada.