Original Articles
Development of a Parental Empowerment Scale During the Child-Rearing Stage
2023 Volume 43 Pages 864-876
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2023 Volume 43 Pages 864-876
Purpose: To develop a parental empowerment scale during the child-rearing stage.
Method: The reliability and validity of the scale were studied by conducting a questionnaire survey among 3,380 parents who are raising children aged 0–3 years.
Results: Of the 670 respondents (response rate, 19.8%), 613 valid responses (valid response rate, 91.4%) were obtained and used in the study. As a result of item analysis and exploratory factor analysis, the four factors, namely, “power to maintain a preferred lifestyle,” “power to maintain a preferred way of childcare,” “power to support your family,” and “power to support your peers/communities,” and 24 other items were extracted. The validity of the scale was confirmed through a test of the goodness of fit of the model (GFI = .880, AGFI = .855, CFI = .891, and RMSEA = .070) and correlation with external reference scales (r = .596). The Cronbach’s α coefficient was .920 for the entire scale and ranged from .767 to .872 for the individual factors. The correlation based on the retest method for the entire scale was r = .868. This confirmed the reliability of the scale.
Conclusion: A parental empowerment scale during the child-rearing stage was developed, and the reliability and validity of the scale were confirmed.
