2019 Volume 39 Pages 211-220
Objective: To construct a scale for adolescent awareness of becoming a parental generation and to examine the reliability and validity of said scale.
Method: A preliminary survey was conducted to create a draft of a 48-item scale on awareness of becoming a parental generation. This survey was conducted on 786 high school students in four high schools in Prefecture A, and its internal consistency and construct validity were examined.
Results: The number of responses collected was 762 (recovery rate: 96.9%); the number of valid responses was 703 (valid response rate: 92.3%). Following a factor analysis and an examination of reliability, a scale was devised with 33 items and 6 factors. The factors were as follows: “awareness of relationships with children,” “awareness of the parent–child relationship,” “awareness of becoming a parent,” “awareness of parenting with a couple and within society,” “interest and feelings regarding children / child care,” and “anxiety about parenting”. Known population validity and a confirmatory factor analysis ensured a constant level of construct validity. The Cronbach’s alpha coefficient for each factor was generally good at 0.76 to 0.94.
Conclusion: The reliability and validity of the scale for awareness of becoming a parental generation that was constructed in this study was generally confirmed.
