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Parent Behavior Importance and Parent Behavior Frequency Questionnaires: Psychometric Characteristics
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Mowder, Barbara A.; Sanders, Michelle – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2008
This study examined the psychometric characteristics of two parenting measures: the Parent Behavior Importance Questionnaire (PBIQ) and Parent Behavior Frequency Questionnaire (PBFQ). Both research questionnaires are based on the parent development theory (PDT) and offer parent as well as non-parent respondents the opportunity to rate 38 parenting…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Child Rearing, Questionnaires, Psychometrics
The Fallacious Assumptions and Unrealistic Prescriptions of Attachment Theory: A Comment on "Parents' Socioemotional Investment in Children".
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Hays, Sharon – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1998
Asserts that sociocultural assumptions underlying items in the Parental Investment in the Child Questionnaire (PIC) are outdated and gender biased. Reviews the underlying logic of attachment theory and the PIC portrait of appropriate childrearing. Parental investment is shown to be maternal investment. The model provides debatable and unrealistic…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Bias, Child Rearing, Models
Social Networks, Quality of Child Rearing, and Child Development.
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Crittenden, Patricia M. – Child Development, 1985
Three hypotheses were investigated among 121 maltreating and adequate mother/child dyads: that (1) there would be qualitative differences in the supportiveness of mothers' networks; (2) differences would be related to differences in child attachment to mother; and (3) differences in mothers' approaches to relationships might have influenced their…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Child Abuse, Child Rearing