Psychometric properties of the parenting self-efficacy questionnaire (TOPSE)

Abstract

Background: Given the role of self-efficacy in people's mental health and the limited tools for measuring it in Iran, access to a valid test to measure this structure is very important. Aims: The aim of this study was to determine the validity and reliability of the Parenting Self-Efficacy Questionnaire in Rasht city. Method: This research was a descriptive developmental study. The statistical sample of the study included 1008 parents of 13 to 15 year old students (658 mothers and 350 fathers) in Rasht city in the academic year 2021-2022 who were selected by cluster sampling. To evaluate the convergent validity, the correlation between Kendall and Bloomfield (2005) Parenting Self-Efficacy Questionnaire and Domka et al (1996) Parentaing Self- Efficacy Questionnaire was calculated at a significance level of 0.05. Results: The content of the items of the parenting self-efficacy questionnaire showed that this tool has eight factors of emotion /affection, play / pleasure, empathy / understanding, control, order / boundaries, pressure, self-acceptance, learning / knowledge with desirable fit indicators. Also, Results from Cronbach's alpha analysis showed the reliability of the whole parenting self-efficacy questionnaire were 0.94 and, 0.61, 0.89, 0.86, 0.71, 0.90, 0.32, 0.57, 0.80 for the subscales of emotion / affection, play / pleasure, empathy / understanding, control, order / boundaries, pressure, self-acceptance, learning / knowledge, respectively. Conclusions: The findings of this study showed that based on the obtained factors, the parenting self-efficacy questionnaire is a suitable, reliable, and valid tool for assessing parental self-efficacy in Iran.

Keywords

• self-efficacy
• parenting
• psychometric properties.