DEVELOPMENT OF THE INVENTORY OF TRADITIONAL AND MODERN APPROACHES TO PARENTING: RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY

OpenAlex İngilizce

Culture has an impact on shaping traditional and egalitarian attitudes that are essential factors affecting parenting and child outcomes. Although in the literature some scales focus on these attitudes about parenthood, none of them are appropriate for the Turkish cultural context. Thus, it is thought that the scale measuring these attitudes in the Turkish cultural context is vital for the proper evaluation of the relationship between these attitudes and other constructs. Therefore, the main aim of the current study was to develop a reliable and valid measure exploring parents’ traditional and modern approaches to parenting. Factor analysis results showed that the Inventory of Traditional and Modern Approaches to Parenting has two dimensions: traditional and modern approaches. Also, the internal consistency scores and significant associations between the factors of the scale and other related constructs demonstrated that the Inventory of Traditional and Modern Approaches to Parenting had good psychometric properties in terms of reliability and validity. In sum, this new scale can be used to assess parents' traditional or modern attitudes toward parenthood.