Validity of a Brief Measure of Parental Affective Attitudes in High-Risk Preschoolers

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• 作者：Rebecca Waller (1) rebecca.waller@gtc.ox.ac.uk
  Frances Gardner (1)
  Thomas J. Dishion (2)
  Daniel S. Shaw (3)
  Melvin N. Wilson (4)
• 关键词：Parenting &#8211 ; Parent&#8211 ; child interaction &#8211 ; Affective attitudes &#8211 ; Conduct problems
• 刊名：Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：August 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：40
• 期：6
• 页码：945-955
• 全文大小：203.0 KB
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• 作者单位：1. Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, Barnett House, 32 Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2ER UK2. Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA3. Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA4. Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
• ISSN：1573-2835

文摘

The current study investigated psychometric properties of the Family Affective Attitude Rating Scale (FAARS) for assessing parents’ thoughts and feelings about their child, coded from a 5-min speech sample. Parental affective attitudes derive from previous experiences of parenting and child behavior, representations of the parent–child relationship and broader parental characteristics. Data were collected from mother-child dyads at ages 2 and 3 (N = 731; 49 % female) from a multi-ethnic and high-risk community sample. Multi-informant observations of parenting and questionnaire measures were used to test construct and discriminant validity. FAARS showed good internal consistency and high inter-rater agreement. Affective attitudes were related to mothers’ perceptions of their daily hassles, their reports of conflict with their child, and observed measures of positive and harsh parenting. Negative affective attitudes uniquely predicted later child problem behavior, over and above maternal reports of and observed measures of parenting. Overall, results support the validity of FAARS coding in mothers of preschoolers, a previously untested group. FAARS is a novel measure, directly assessing maternal perceptions of the parent–child relationship, and indirectly providing an index of maternal affect, stress, and depressive symptoms. Its brevity and cost-effectiveness further enhance the potential use of the FAARS measure for clinical and research settings.