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ERIC Number: EJ1478735
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Sep
Pages: 20
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0734-2829
EISSN: EISSN-1557-5144
Available Date: 0000-00-00
Parental Anxiety about Children's Education: Construct Clarification and Scale Development
Guo Xiaolin1; Zhang Yifan1; Xie Jiajia1; He Surina2; Su Ti1,3; Luo Liang4
Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, v43 n6 p591-610 2025
Parents' anxiety about their children's education has been common in recent years and has a negative effect on children. This study aimed to clarify this construct and develop the Parental Anxiety about Children's Education Scale (PACES) to lay a foundation for future research. In Study 1, we developed a scale based on 465 parents that included 20 items and four dimensions of anxiety in relation to children's academic performance, family educational resources, the quality of school education, and the educational macroenvironment. In Study 2, we used data from 4566 parents to test the reliability and validity of the final scale via item analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, consistency reliability, measurement invariance, and validity evidence on the basis of relations. We concluded that the scale is a promising new measure for assessing parental anxiety about children's education for parents of both primary and secondary school students.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Author Affiliations: 1Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment Toward Basic Education Quality, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China; 2Measurement, Evaluation, and Data Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; 3Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China; 4Institute of Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China