مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - Parent As A Teacher Inventory: The Study of Validity and Reliability

Abstract :

Measuring attitudes of parents on rearing is very important. The aim of this research is to adapt the Parent As A Teacher Inventory (PAAT) to Turkish. This instrument is used to measure attitudes of parents who have 3- to 9 year-old children. PAAT instructions inform respondents that they read statements on feelings and think about their child. PAAT is designed to examine interaction between parent and child on five aspects which are creativity, control, play, frustration, and teaching-learning. In this study, PAAT was administered to 351 parents (191 mothers and 160 fathers) living in Adana, Turkey. All subjects were volunteer parents and had children between five and six years of age. The Turkish parents were selected from the children’s parents who go to eight kindergartens affiliated to the Ministry of National Education in Adana. Factorial structure, criterion-related validity, test retest reliability and cronbach alpha internal consistency of the version of the inventory were assessed by various statistical analyses. The results of the factor analysis of the scale which was held to reveal the factor structure of the scale seem similar to the original scale. Cronbach alpha correlation coefficient of the scale was found as α= 0,83. Test-retest reliability coefficient was found as 0,88. PAAT which was developed by Strom (1984) and adapted to Turkish by Yılmaz Bolat was employed in order to measure the criterion referenced validity of the scale. The findings indicated that it was of validity and reliability. Finally, it was founded that fit index values of the model: RMSEA=.05, RMR=.03, SRMRI=.06, GFI=.86, AGFI=.84, X²/sd: 2.01, X²: 909.05, p:.00.