Ebeveynlik ve Çocuk Cinselliği Anketi’nin Türkçe Uyarlaması: Geçerlik ve GüvenirlikÇalışması

Türkçe

The most important sources of information about sexuality of children are their parents.Thepurpose of this study to adapt Parenting and Child Sexuality Questionnaire to Turkish.After language equivalance studies, the questionnaire was administered to 322 parents who have a child aged between 3-14 years.The questionnaire consists of five scales which their names "Parents' Knowledge and Experiences of Sexual Education", "Parenting Strategies", "Parental Self-Assessment", "Parents' Views on The Importance of Sex Education", "Parental Opinions about Child Sex Education Cirriculum" and includes open-ended questions.In order to analyses the data, factor analyses, Cronbach alpha correlation coefficients, corrected item-total correlations and t-tests between items were used.According to the results; from the five scales in the questionnaire, it was seen that 3 scales formed a single-factor structure that overlaps with the original scale structure, and two scales were obtained with a three-factor structure unlike the original scale structure.The fit index values of the scales showed acceptable and good fit values.The internal consistency coefficients of the scales were respectively .65,.91,.90,.76,.82,and .90.As a result, this questionnaire can be used by experts who want to research on the roles of parents on sexual education programs for child sexual development.Structured Abstract: Problem: Parents are responsible for monitoring and supporting the mental, physical, emotional, social and sexual development of the child from birth.Supporting sexual development includes the ability of children to receive appropriate sexual education for their age.Sexual education is a lifelong process of obtaining information, attitudes, beliefs and values, and includes all of the roles of sexual roles, interpersonal relationships, love, privacy, body perception and reproductive health (Eliküçükand Sönmez, 2011).The results of the researches indicate that parents do not know how to talk about sexuality with their