Document Type : Original Article
Authors
1 Faculty of Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran
2 Shahid Beheshti University
Abstract
The undeniable necessity of understanding parental behaviors from a contextual perspective has encouraged various researchers to study the functional characteristics of parenting practices depending on the contexts such as academic learning, interaction with peers, and the daily life of children and adolescents. Therefore, this research study was conducted to analyze the factorial validity and psychometric properties of the Persian version of the Academic Parenting Scale. In this descriptive survey, 350 mothers were selected through accessible sampling method. They filled out the Academic Parenting Scale (Wang et al., 2022), Parenting Wisdom Scale (Boumpouli et al., 2022), and the Strength-based Parenting Scale (Jach et al., 2018). The results of the confirmatory factor analysis showed that the Academic Parenting Scale had good factorial validity with a four-factor structure consisting of parental warmth, parenting focused on behavioral control, parenting focused on psychological control, and parental support. Indices of 2χ, 2χ/df, CFI, GFI, AGFI, and RMSEA were equal to 904.66, 1.85, 0.93, 0.95, 0.93, and 0.05, respectively. In addition, the results concerning the correlation between the dimensions of academic parenting with strength-based parenting and different facets of parental wisdom supported the convergent validity of the Persian version of the Academic Parenting Scale. Moreover, the internal consistency coefficients of academic parenting subscales, including warmth, behavioral control, psychological control, and independence-encouraging parenting, were equal to 0.80, 0.79, 0.84, and 0.79, respectively. In sum, while defending the conceptual positions derived from the self-determination theory in the development of a contextual approach to parenting behaviors and expanding the frontier of theoretical knowledge in the field of emerging and contextual studies of educational parenting, this research study provided compelling evidence in preliminary support of the technical characteristics of validity and reliability of the Persian version of Academic Parenting Scale.
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