Measurement invariance of discipline in different cultural contextsShow others and affiliations
2012 (Swedish)In: Family Science, ISSN 1942-4620, E-ISSN 1942-4639, Vol. 2, no 3, p. 212-219Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The measurement invariance of mother-reported use of 18 discipline strategies was examined in samples from 13 different ethnic/cultural groups in nine countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States). Participants included approximately 100–120 mothers and their children aged seven to 10 years from each group. The results of exploratory factor analyses and multi-group categorical confirmatory factor analyses (MCCFA) indicated that a seven-factor solution was feasible across the cultural groups, as shown by marginally sufficient evidence for configural and metric invariance for the mother-reported frequency on the discipline interview. This study makes a contribution on measurement invariance to the parenting literature, and establishes the mother-report aspect of the discipline interview as an instrument for use in further cross-cultural research on discipline.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2012. Vol. 2, no 3, p. 212-219
Keywords [en]
discipline; measurement invariance; cross-cultural research
National Category
Psychology
Research subject
SOCIAL SCIENCE, Psychology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-4640OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hv-4640DiVA, id: diva2:553050
2012-09-182012-09-182019-06-03Bibliographically approved