The reliability and validity of the Parenting Scale for Australian mothers of preschool-aged children

Figures & data

Table I. Percentage of participants with certain demographic characteristics for the two samples individually and combined

Table II. Factor loadings of the parenting scale items in the current study

Table III. Salient similarity indices (s) for factors obtained in previous studies and the current analysis (laxness above the diagonal, overreactivity below the diagonal)

	Irvine et al., 1999	Reitman et al., 2001	Harvey et al., 2001	Collett et al., 2001	Current study
Irvine et al., 1999		.61**	.70**	.83**	.87**
Reitman et al., 2001	.45*		.46*	.56**	.67**
Harvey et al., 2001	.61**	.55**		.85**	.67**
Collett et al., 2001	.70**	.30	.73**		.80**
Current study	.82**	.45*	.67**	.86**
*p < .01; **p < .001; n = 30, hyperplane count = 60%+.

Table IV. Parenting Scale scores by sample characteristics. Means (SD) are given for the total sample and the two subsamples. Pearson's correlation coefficients (r) are given for the measures of children's behaviour problems

Table

Factor 2	Factor 1
	Positive salient	Hyperplane	Negative salient
Positive salient	f11	f12	f13
Hyperplane	f21	f22	f23
Negative salient	f31	f32	f33