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The Lum Emotional Availability of Parents Scale among Portuguese Adolescents: A Psychometric Evaluation
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Tânia Brandão; Sofia Simão – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2024
Emotional availability of parents plays a crucial role in the psychological well-being and development of adolescents. However, previous studies have primarily focused on assessing maternal emotional availability. The Lum Emotional Availability of Parents (LEAP) scale was developed, considering both mothers' and fathers' emotional availability.…
Descriptors: Parents, Affective Behavior, Emotional Response, Adolescent Development
Parenting Practices Scale: Its Validity and Reliability for Parents of School-Aged Children
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Kahraman, Hanife; Yilmaz Irmak, Turkan; Basokcu, T. Oguz – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2017
Parenting practices are a field in psychology in which numerous studies have been carried out. In western countries, attempts to define the concept operationally have led to the emergence of many scales claiming to test the concept. This study aims at developing a scale to evaluate the parenting practices of parents with schoolchildren and at…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Parenting Styles, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis
The Structure of Women's Mood in the Early Postpartum
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Buttner, Melissa M.; O'Hara, Michael W.; Watson, David – Assessment, 2012
The "postpartum blues" is a mild, predictable mood disturbance occurring within the first several days following childbirth. Previous analyses of the "blues" symptom structure yielded inconclusive findings, making reliable assessment a significant methodological limitation. The current study aimed to explicate the symptom…
Descriptors: Females, Measures (Individuals), Factor Analysis, Psychometrics
Maternal Affect Attunement: Refinement and Internal Validation of a Coding Scheme
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Bartling, Karen; Kopp, Franziska; Lindenberger, Ulman – European Journal of Developmental Science, 2010
The concept of maternal affect attunement has evoked considerable theoretical interest, but attempts at empirical validation have been scarce. The aim of this study was to refine the coding scheme for assessment of maternal affect attunement and to establish the internal validity of the measure. Forty dyads with seven-month-old infants and their…
Descriptors: Mothers, Coding, Infants, Parent Child Relationship
Quality of Toddler-Mother Attachment in Children with Down Syndrome: Limits to Interpretation of Strange Situation Behavior.
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Vaughn, Brian E.; And Others – Child Development, 1994
Three samples of 24- to 54-month-old children with Down's syndrome were assessed using the Ainsworth Strange Situation Procedure (ASSP) of attachment security and scored according to traditional protocols. Found that developmentally younger subjects were more difficult to classify using the standard scoring rules and that the ASSP may be measuring…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Attachment Behavior, Downs Syndrome
The Influence of Perceived Social Support, Maternal Affect, and the Home on Attachment.
Kopera, Karen F.; And Others – 1989
The paper examined the impact of maternal personality and maternal social support variables on the security of mother-infant attachment. The influence of maternal intelligence, affect balance, and life stress were also examined. Measures used included Loevinger's Ego Development Scale, Crnic's Satisfaction with Social Support, the Peabody Picture…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Economically Disadvantaged, Family Environment