Research Article

Development of the Parentified Child Scale- Adult Version: A Reliability and Validity Study

Volume: 48 Number: 1 April 21, 2019
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Development of the Parentified Child Scale- Adult Version: A Reliability and Validity Study

Abstract

This study aims to develop a scale that can measure parentification levels for adults in a valid and reliable way. A total of 705 people (510 females, 195 males) participated in the study. The Filial Responsibility Scale-Adult Version developed by Jurkovic, Thirkield and Morel (2001), adopted to Turkish by Karagöbek (2014) was used for Convergent and Discrimant Validity. It was found that the Parentified Child Scale Adult Version (PCS-A) scale consists of two sub-scales and the first sub-scale has four factors and the second sub-scale has one factor through explanatory and confirmatory factor analysis. The Cronbach Alpha coefficient of PCS-A is found as .88. The item total correlation coefficients were between .37 and .71. Confirmatory factor analysis of the first sub-scale of the scale shows that 22 items had four factors and the chi-square fit (c2=506.42, df=203, p=.00) was significant. The c2/df result for model fit was determined to be 2.49. In addition, RMSEA = .073, CFI = .95, NFI = .92, NNFI = .94, IFI = .95, RFI.91 and GFI = .86 were calculated. The test-retest correlation coefficient was found to be .91. The relationship between the PCS-A and the FRS was analysed as .81. The results suggest that Parentified Child Scale-Adult Version is a valid and reliable instrument.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Studies on Education

Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Publication Date

April 21, 2019

Submission Date

July 13, 2018

Acceptance Date

March 21, 2019

Published in Issue

Year 2019 Volume: 48 Number: 1

APA
Zencir, T., & Haskan-avcı, Ö. (2019). Development of the Parentified Child Scale- Adult Version: A Reliability and Validity Study. Çukurova Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi, 48(1), 531-553. https://doi.org/10.14812/cuefd.443707
AMA
1.Zencir T, Haskan-avcı Ö. Development of the Parentified Child Scale- Adult Version: A Reliability and Validity Study. Çukurova Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi. 2019;48(1):531-553. doi:10.14812/cuefd.443707
Chicago
Zencir, Tolga, and Özlem Haskan-avcı. 2019. “Development of the Parentified Child Scale- Adult Version: A Reliability and Validity Study”. Çukurova Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi 48 (1): 531-53. https://doi.org/10.14812/cuefd.443707.
EndNote
Zencir T, Haskan-avcı Ö (April 1, 2019) Development of the Parentified Child Scale- Adult Version: A Reliability and Validity Study. Çukurova Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi 48 1 531–553.
IEEE
[1]T. Zencir and Ö. Haskan-avcı, “Development of the Parentified Child Scale- Adult Version: A Reliability and Validity Study”, Çukurova Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 531–553, Apr. 2019, doi: 10.14812/cuefd.443707.
ISNAD
Zencir, Tolga - Haskan-avcı, Özlem. “Development of the Parentified Child Scale- Adult Version: A Reliability and Validity Study”. Çukurova Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi 48/1 (April 1, 2019): 531-553. https://doi.org/10.14812/cuefd.443707.
JAMA
1.Zencir T, Haskan-avcı Ö. Development of the Parentified Child Scale- Adult Version: A Reliability and Validity Study. Çukurova Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi. 2019;48:531–553.
MLA
Zencir, Tolga, and Özlem Haskan-avcı. “Development of the Parentified Child Scale- Adult Version: A Reliability and Validity Study”. Çukurova Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi, vol. 48, no. 1, Apr. 2019, pp. 531-53, doi:10.14812/cuefd.443707.
Vancouver
1.Tolga Zencir, Özlem Haskan-avcı. Development of the Parentified Child Scale- Adult Version: A Reliability and Validity Study. Çukurova Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi. 2019 Apr. 1;48(1):531-53. doi:10.14812/cuefd.443707

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